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bazel iOS tutorial does not work on MacOS Catalina or BigSur
Description of the problem / feature request:
these instructions no longer work to yield a running app:
https://docs.bazel.build/versions/main/tutorial/ios-app.html
Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
build the bazel iOS example
Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.
follow the instructions, and you will get this error:
ERROR: /private/var/tmp/_bazel_bk/bddad700865f223ab3aef29c1bb6d4fa/external/local_config_cc/BUILD:48:19: in cc_toolchain_suite rule @local_config_cc//:toolchain: cc_toolchain_suite '@local_config_cc//:toolchain' does not contain a toolchain for cpu 'ios_x86_64' ERROR: Analysis of target '//ios-app:ios-app' failed; build aborted: Analysis failed
What operating system are you running Bazel on?
macOS Catalina and Big Sur
What's the output of bazel info release?
release 3.2.0 also get similar errors when running with 4.0.0 bazel
If bazel info rlease returns "development version" or "(@non-git)", tell us how you built Bazel.
What's the output of git remote get-url origin ; git rev-parse master ; git rev-parse HEAD ?
N/A, installed pre-built bazel
Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
there are many notes online about "does not contain a toolchain" but none of the suggestions fixed the problem. it seems to be a common problem. maybe you should include something in FAQs for this?
Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
in particular, this command in the example fails:
bazel build //ios-app:ios-app
I'm moving this issue to https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple, because I think they're handling this now.
Do you have a full Xcode installation installed? What's the output of xcodebuild -version?
thanks for the response,
we have tried setting up xcode 12.5.1 and xcode 12.2
we are doing other iOS development with xcode, so we have full installations of xcode and are able to build other apps
looking back at my orig posting, it seems that the string 'ios_x86_64' is related to a simulator build for the intel mac, not a device build. maybe you guys are using M1 macs and dont see the x86_64 error because of that? (e.g. m1 mac is not x86_64). we do typically make simulator builds for other apps though.