React-Native: Error: Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies for iOS project, which is required by this template

Question

While executing npx react-native init MyProject I ran into the following error:

? Installing CocoaPods dependencies (this may take a few minutes)
error Error: Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies for iOS project, which is required by this template.

Which seems to be related to an earlier error displayed:

checking for arm-apple-darwin-gcc... /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc -arch armv7 -isysroot 
checking whether the C compiler works... no
xcrun: error: SDK "iphoneos" cannot be located
xcrun: error: SDK "iphoneos" cannot be located
xcrun: error: SDK "iphoneos" cannot be located
xcrun: error: unable to lookup item 'Path' in SDK 'iphoneos'

XCode and its CLI seem to all run fine.

My configuration:

• MacOS Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88)
• NPM 6.11.3
• React-Native 0.61.4
• XCode 11.2.1 (11B500)

Any leads appreciated.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58934022/react-native-error-failed-to-install-cocoapods-dependencies-for-ios-project-w

Answer 1

I've found a very similar error reported here, with a solution that suggested:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app

Reading around seems to suggest that somewhere down the updates line, the XCode CLI tools path was set to an incorrect one.

Also as @bibin-jaimon suggested in the comments below, I do have multiple versions of XCode on my machine (why? because of https://stackoverflow.com/a/58329901/606351).

Anyways, problem solved.