RCTAppDelegate.h file not found after upgrading from 0.70.6 to 0.71.4

[RSchneider94]

Environment

System:
    OS: macOS 12.5
    CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M1
    Memory: 164.19 MB / 8.00 GB
    Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.18.1 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
    npm: 8.19.2 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
    Watchman: 2022.10.31.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
  Managers:
    CocoaPods: 1.12.0 - /Users/rodrigoschneider/.rbenv/shims/pod
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: DriverKit 22.2, iOS 16.2, macOS 13.1, tvOS 16.1, watchOS 9.1
    Android SDK:
      API Levels: 31, 33
      Build Tools: 29.0.3, 30.0.3, 31.0.0
      System Images: android-33 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a
      Android NDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 2021.3 AI-213.7172.25.2113.9123335
    Xcode: 14.2/14C18 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
    Java: 17.0.1 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0
    react-native: 0.71.4 => 0.71.4
    react-native-macos: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

Things I’ve done to figure out my issue

• [X] I used upgrade-helper to do my upgrade.

Upgrading version

From 0.70.6 to 0.71.4

Description

After upgrading everything as described in the RN Upgrade Helper Guide, even though I have entirely deleted my node_modules, yarn.lock, cleaned/deleted everything related to the Pods, I'm not able to build successfully my app with the following issue being presented on Xcode:

'RCTAppDelegate.h' file not found

Here is what's inside my AppDelegate.h:

#import <RCTAppDelegate.h>
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface AppDelegate : RCTAppDelegate

@end

Reproducible demo

Unfortunately I can't recreate a reproducible demo for this app. Just one thing that might help is that I'm currently using the react-native-firebase lib which asks me to do some changes in some iOS files as described here these are just the difference that my app has regarding the iOS files. Other than that, all looks the same as the Upgrade Guide.

[RSchneider94]

I give a try again following these steps again and using Xcode that build was still failing, but when trying to run directly the react-native run-ios command it has built successfully and worked.

[carldatu]

Same here.

[yshakouri]

Same issue on M1 !

[mdrajibsk8]

Anyone found any solution for this?

[ucheNkadiCode]

Still looking for a hero with a solution for this on M1 macs

[ucheNkadiCode]

@RSchneider94 would you mind please re-opening this issue and help investigate?

I'm also getting a "react/RCTEventEmitter.h" not found error as well

[mdrajibsk8]

I manage to solve this issue. What you need to do is simply install react-native manually instead of npm i

Run - npm i react-native@your_verion Also don't forget to clear your cache

[gezichenshan]

same issue. "react-native": "^0.71.1", "react-native": "^0.71.7" too,

[RSchneider94]

@RSchneider94 would you mind please re-opening this issue and help investigate?

I'm also getting a "react/RCTEventEmitter.h" not found error as well

sorry, my bad! wasn't suppose to close the issue, just comment, misclick 🙈

[mjstelly]

I manage to solve this issue. What you need to do is simply install react-native manually instead of npm i

Run - npm i react-native@your_verion Also don't forget to clear your cache

It didn't resolve the Xcode issue for me. I can launch the app from CLI. Xcode still throws that error. No idea why.

[ucheNkadiCode]

I threw an answer on StackOverflow, please let me know if it helps you!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75822104/rctappdelegate-h-file-not-found/76191070#76191070

[thanksyouall]

Same issue

[gezichenshan]

FEEDBACK: I asked our HR to drop the bad old mac and bought a new one, then all issues were resovled magically.

[enisinanaj]

Any news? I'm having the same issue since a couple of months with rn 0.71.8

[sabeti]

For those who still have this issue, first make sure you opened "projectName".xcworkspace and not "projectName".xcodeproj in XCode.

[laurensius]

Any news? I'm having the same issue on M1.

[enisinanaj]

Any news? I'm having the same issue on M1.

Please check this issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/35818

[laurensius]

Any news? I'm having the same issue on M1.

Please check this issue: facebook/react-native#35818

OK! Thank you!

[zinzaducnm]

Any news? I'm having the same issue on M1.

Hope this helps. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/35818#issuecomment-1736702622

[liplylie]

What worked for me was, in ios/Podfile, add:

target 'YourTargetName' do
    inherit! :complete
  end

Seems like there's an issue with XCode finding the location of RCTAppDelegate.h without it.