Build Failure with React Native and Rollbar Integration - ‘RollbarCrash’ Module Issues

[tawanorg]

Description

I'm encountering build failures when integrating Rollbar into a bare-minimum React Native project. The error seems to stem from the RollbarCrash module, causing build failures in both the terminal and Xcode workspace.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a new React Native project with the following configuration:
   • React Native version: 0.76.0
   • Rollbar version: 1.0.0-beta.4
2. Install Rollbar dependencies by following the official Rollbar integration steps for React Native.
3. Attempt to build the project using:
   • react-native run-ios in the terminal
   • Opening the .xcworkspace in Xcode and building from there.

Expected Behavior

The project should build successfully with Rollbar integrated.

Actual Behavior

The build fails after installing Rollbar. Below are the specific errors from Xcode:
Module ‘RollbarCrash.RollbarCrashThread’ requires feature ‘objc’ and more

This error is repeated multiple times for various symbols within RollbarCrash. The project builds without Rollbar installed, but after adding the Rollbar dependencies, neither the terminal nor Xcode will build the project successfully.

Please see the attached screenshots of the error messages in Xcode and the terminal for more details:

Dependencies:

"dependencies": {
  "@rollbar/react": "^0.12.0-beta",
  "react": "18.3.1",
  "react-native": "0.76.0",
  "rollbar": "^2.26.4",
  "rollbar-react-native": "^1.0.0-beta.4"
}

Environment

• Xcode version: 16
• macOS version: 15.0.1
• Node version: 20.15.1

Podfile Configuration:

platform :ios, '11.0'
use_frameworks! :linkage => :static

target 'AppName' do
  config = use_native_modules!

  use_react_native!(
    :path => config[:reactNativePath]
  )

  # Rollbar dependencies
  pod 'RollbarReport'
  pod 'RollbarCrash', :modular_headers => true

  target 'YourAppNameTests' do
    inherit! :complete
  end

  post_install do |installer|
    react_native_post_install(installer)
  end
end

[tawanorg]

Here is the demo repository https://github.com/tawanorg/react-native-with-rollbar

[matux]

@tawanorg I'm looking into this right now, I'll try to get a fix asap. Thank you so much for this.

[matux]

@tawanorg So, the problem here is two-fold:

1. Don't define these pod dependencies separately:

  # Rollbar dependencies
  pod 'RollbarReport'
  pod 'RollbarCrash', :modular_headers => true

Cocoapods suggests this when using dynamic framework linkage, but the suggestion is wrong. So delete those two lines.

2. Unlike the Podfile Configuration you shared in the issue, the Podfile in the repository you shared is not correctly defining static framework llinkage.
   You have to either do this explicitly by adding the use_frameworks! :linkage => :static line, or make sure the env var USE_FRAMEWORKS = 'static' is set.

[matux]

@tawanorg Please refer to this comment for the solution: #199 (comment)

[matux]

I'll close this issue as soon as you confirm you got things working on your side. Any other issue you're seeing, don't hesitate communicating, I'll do my best to fix things asap for you.