eas build: hermes requires libicu-dev on the OS for building [rn new architecture]

Build/Submit details page URL

https://expo.dev/accounts/johanneshartl/projects/fiskalcheck/builds/7959e10b-8e40-4642-a353-82c50dd94b54

Summary

When trying to build an app on eas-build, the image is missing the required ICU libraries for hermes. When using the new architecture Hermes is mandatory => new architecture won’t work with eas build

“To avoid substantially increasing the binary size of Hermes, we decided to implement it with another strategy by consuming and mapping the ICU facilities provided by the libraries included in the operating systems, at the cost of some (often minor) variance in behaviors across platforms.” - https://reactnative.dev/blog/2021/10/26/toward-hermes-being-the-default

Managed or bare?

bare

Environment

npx expo-env-info:

  expo-env-info 1.0.5 environment info:
    System:
      OS: Linux 5.14 Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
      Shell: 5.1.16 - /bin/bash
    Binaries:
      Node: 16.16.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.16.0/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.22.19 - ~/projects/fiskalcheck/frontend/node_modules/.bin/yarn
      npm: 8.11.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.16.0/bin/npm
      Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/bin/watchman
    SDKs:
      Android SDK:
        API Levels: 30, 31
        Build Tools: 30.0.2, 30.0.3, 31.0.0, 33.0.0
    npmPackages:
      expo: ^47.0.7 => 47.0.7 
      react: 18.1.0 => 18.1.0 
      react-dom: 18.1.0 => 18.1.0 
      react-native: 0.70.5 => 0.70.5 
    npmGlobalPackages:
      eas-cli: 2.7.1
      expo-cli: 6.0.8
    Expo Workflow: bare

expo doctor:

Expected package @expo/config-plugins@^5.0.2

Found invalid:
  @expo/config-plugins@5.0.1
  (for more info, run: npm why @expo/config-plugins)
Expected package @expo/prebuild-config@^5.0.5
Found invalid:
  @expo/prebuild-config@5.0.3
  (for more info, run: npm why @expo/prebuild-config)

Error output

Task ':ReactAndroid:hermes-engine:configureBuildForHermes'.

[RUN_GRADLEW] CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:523 (message):
[RUN_GRADLEW]   Unable to find ICU.

. . .

[RUN_GRADLEW] -- The following ICU libraries were not found:
[RUN_GRADLEW] --   uc (required)
[RUN_GRADLEW] --   i18n (required)
[RUN_GRADLEW] --   data (required)
[RUN_GRADLEW] --   uc (required)
[RUN_GRADLEW] -- Failed to find all ICU components (missing: ICU_INCLUDE_DIR ICU_LIBRARY _ICU_REQUIRED_LIBS_FOUND) (Required is at least version "52")
[RUN_GRADLEW] -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Reproducible demo or steps to reproduce from a blank project

• setup eas bare workflow project with RN-0.75
• add expo-localization & i18n (i18next)
• enable new architecture
• run eas build --platform android

[wkozyra95]

We don’t have a date for official support, but the missing ICU should be added after the weekend.

[wkozyra95]

this is not about sudo persmission, your script file does not have execute permission. You need to run chmod +x ./scripts/eas-buld-pre-install.sh locally and build again