No bundle URL error present in iOS build on Simulator

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Hello,

I’ve recently tried to run joplin on iOS. However, when I open the app on the Simulator this shows up.

Bundler
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I’ve tried quite a few solutions, but none of those seem to work. If anyone knows a fix, please do share.

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I gathering build challenges. There has been another discussion to building on iOS recently.
Do you have an iOS device or do you simulate only?
What is your dev environment?

3

Build system was changed recently. Please delete the repo, clone it again and follow BUILD.md.

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I'm facing the issue in the Simulator. After reading your comment, I tried building the app to my iPhone. I had to disable iCloud functionalities and Push notification to make it build (I don't have dev account).
Even then, I got the error "library not found: lDoubleConversion" when building from XCode. To fix this, I did.

cd ios
pod install
rm -rf build
cd ..
rm -rf node_modules
npm install
killall -9 node

After this, the build on the iPhone was successful. I built the same workspace from XCode on iPhone and Simulator and the problem occurs only on the Simulator.

My dev environment. I guess you meant my OS. I use macOS Catalina 10.15.2. XCode version is 11.3.1.

I tried cloning it again and building. Same problem on the Simulator, works fine on iOS.

5

What commands did you run exactly? Because what you've listed above is not in BUILD.md

6

I cloned the repo.
npm install
cd ReactNativeClient
and then react-native run-ios

These were the instructions mentioned in the BUILD.md.

7

Did you try this?

To run the iOS application, it might be easier to open the file ios/Joplin.xcworkspace on XCode and run the app from there.

8

Yes. That's when I got the IDoubleConversion not found error. I fixed it as mentioned above.
From the workspace, build on iPhone works fine. It is the simulator that has issues.

9

And the bundler is running? ./start_server.sh

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Assuming it is the file in the ReactNativeClient folder, It doesn’t do anything.
The contents of ./start_server.sh is:

#!/bin/bash

npm start -- --reset-cache

However, the package.json file doesn’t have a start script.

"scripts": {
"start-ios": "react-native run-ios",
"start-android": "react-native run-android",
"postinstall": "jetify && npm run build",
"build": "gulp build",
"log-ios": "react-native-log-ios \"Joplin\"",
"log-android": "adb logcat *:S ReactNative:V ReactNativeJS:V"
}
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Hmm, looks like the “start” command has been lost in the recent update, I will add it back.

In the meantime you can try to run:

node node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js start --reset-cache
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Yepp. It works now.

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I'm absolute noob in regard to iOS, I don't have any apple device.
So you use XCode 11, do you? Testing the app you follow Running Your App in the Simulator or on a Device | Apple Developer Documentation, correct?

ever used Reference - Expo Documentation?

14

Hey PackElend,
The problem was not with the build, but with the start up script. The bundler start script was not hooked properly to the run-ios script. Running the bundler manually by running:

Seems to fix the problem in the Simulator

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I got that, just wasn't sure about your dev tools

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