KMM project setup with cocoaPods fails on first compile

Question

I created a new KMM project and selected Cocoapods for the iOS framework distribution and as soon as it finished building it threw the following error:

Executing of 'pod install' failed with code 1. Error message:

Please, check that file "/Users/barryalan/AndroidStudioProjects/PersonalProjects/deleteThis/iosApp/Podfile" contains following lines in header: source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org'

Please, check that each target depended on shared contains following dependencies:

I can't complain given this is still in alpha, but I do need some guidance on how to fix this.

Answer 1

2022 UPDATE

How to run CocoaPods on Apple Silicon (M1) (credit goes to commenter Jakub Turcovsky)

Original post

Had a similar issue on M1 (Apple Silicon) Mac. It asked for dependencies but didn't tell which had been missing. Just the error code was different:

Executing of 'pod install' failed with code 134

After installing the cocoapods (and generate), I had to update ruby for M1 (see How to run CocoaPods on Apple Silicon (M1))

sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi

In the KMM project I ran (within the iosApp folder):

arch -x86_64 pod install

Shared dependency has been installed

/iosApp ❯ arch -x86_64 pod install                                                                                              
Analyzing dependencies
Downloading dependencies
Installing shared (1.0)
Generating Pods project
Integrating client project
Pod installation complete! There is 1 dependency from the Podfile and 1 total pod installed.

After that, the project has been sync properly.

FYI:

• Android Studio Arctic Fox | 2020.3.1 Patch 4 (arm64)
• VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o. - Homebrew (openjdk@11)
• macOS 12.1