Android compilation problem with expo-av 11.2.3: In file included from .../cpp/JPlayerData.h:6:10: fatal error: 'fbjni/fbjni.h' file not found

Summary

I am expecting that I can follow https://github.com/expo/expo/tree/main/templates/expo-template-bare-minimum then bump expo-av version from 10x series to 11

and my build would succeed

Instead I am getting:

In file included from …/…/…/…/src/main/cpp/JPlayerData.cpp:3: …/…/…/…/src/main/cpp/JPlayerData.h:6:10: fatal error: ‘fbjni/fbjni.h’ file not found

I am not using the new architecture, I am not building a new application. None of the instructions suggest to include anything C++ related, I am not including fbjni in any of my code direction.

Where should I start looking to troubleshoot this? Thank you

build.grade (not app/build.gradle):

import static org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os.OS_NAME
import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os
apply from: 'app/config/gradle_cfg/versioning.gradle'

def myNodeModulesRootDir_abs="${rootDir}/.."

buildscript { //these tools are for building things
    ext {
        targetSdkVersion = Integer.parseInt(findProperty('android.targetSdkVersion') ?: "31") //set the same as compileSDK below

        buildToolsVersion = findProperty('android.buildToolsVersion') ?: "31.0.0"
        kotlinVersion = "1.6.10"
        if (hasProperty('android.kotlinVersion')) {
            kotlinVersion = findProperty('android.kotlinVersion')
        }

        if (System.properties['os.arch'] == "aarch64") {
            // For M1 Users we need to use the NDK 24 which added support for aarch64
            ndkVersion = "24.0.8215888"
        } else if (Os.isFamily(Os.FAMILY_WINDOWS)) {
            // For Android Users, we need to use NDK 23, otherwise the build will
            // fail due to paths longer than the OS limit
            ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"
        } else {
            // Otherwise we default to the side-by-side NDK version from AGP.
            ndkVersion = "21.4.7075529"
        }
    }
    repositories {
        google() //needed for gradle android plugin
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' } //for rxbilling
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.4'//7.2.0'
        classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
        classpath("de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:4.1.2")
    }

}

allprojects { //these are for my app
    buildDir = "${System.getenv('HOME')}/tmp/${rootProject.name}/${project.name}"
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url(new File(["node", "--print", "require.resolve('react-native/package.json')"].execute(null, rootDir).text.trim(),
                    "../android"))
        }
        maven {
            // Android JSC is installed from npm
            url(new File(["node", "--print", "require.resolve('jsc-android/package.json')"].execute(null, rootDir).text.trim(),
                    "../dist"))
        }


        mavenCentral {
            content {
                excludeGroup "com.facebook.react"
            }
        }
        google()
        maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' }
    }
    logger.quiet("~~~ rootDir is ${rootDir}")
    logger.quiet("~~~ buildDir is ${buildDir}")
    logger.quiet("~~~ Kotlin version is set to ${rootProject.ext.kotlinVersion}")
	repositories
	{	
	  mavenCentral()
	  }		

}

subprojects {

    repositories {
        //jcenter()
        google ()
    }

    //inject for every android project
       afterEvaluate {project ->
        if (project.hasProperty("android")) {
            android {
                compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion

            }
        }
    }

}

wrapper {
    distributionType = Wrapper.DistributionType.ALL
}

gradle.properties:

buildNumber=10 
version=1.1.10

org.gradle.caching=true
org.gradle.unsafe.configuration-cache=false
org.gradle.unsafe.configuration-cache-problems=warn
org.gradle.daemon=true
org.gradle.parallel=true
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2536m -XX:+UseParallelGC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8  
org.gradle.configureondemand=true


disableAllBuildTypesApartFrom=debug
android.useAndroidX=true
pk12FileLocation=overridden
releaseTrack=alpha
increaseMinSdkForDev=false


android.enableJetifier=true
disableSomeBuildTypes=false
dexMemoryAllocation="1092m"

FLIPPER_VERSION=0.125.0
expo.jsEngine="hermes"



# Use this property to enable support to the new architecture.
# This will allow you to use TurboModules and the Fabric render in
# your application. You should enable this flag either if you want
# to write custom TurboModules/Fabric components OR use libraries that
# are providing them.
newArchEnabled=false

# Enable GIF support in React Native images (~200 B increase)
expo.gif.enabled=true
# Enable webp support in React Native images (~85 KB increase)
expo.webp.enabled=true
# Enable animated webp support (~3.4 MB increase)
# Disabled by default because iOS doesn't support animated webp
expo.webp.animated=false
#expo end


android.enableR8.fullMode=false

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android

SDK Version

45.0.4

Environment

expo-env-info 1.0.3 environment info: System: OS: Linux 5.15 Manjaro Linux Shell: 5.1.16 - /bin/bash Binaries: Node: 16.14.2 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.2/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.18 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.2/bin/yarn npm: 8.5.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.2/bin/npm npmPackages: expo: ^45 => 45.0.4 react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2 react-native: 0.68.1 => 0.68.1 Expo Workflow: managed

Reproducible demo

I am looking for guidance on how to troubleshoot this new build/compile issue due to expo-av upgrade My application is not a ‘full’ expo app, I am just using RN+Expo-av in one of the activities.
Since my app is not a full expo app, I always use https://github.com/expo/expo/tree/main/templates/expo-template-bare-minimum
as a guide for upgrades.

I had copied/inserts bits in pieces in all the various config files that I have to manually manage with every upgrade. But i cannot see what I missed to get passed this error

[vladp]

For what it is worth, I think this is also the reason, I think, why many folks get strange build errors when they switch from Debug to Release, or Release to Debug build types, at least on Android. It is because the expo-av build process deposits its artifacts in the locations that are not understood by Gradle :clean commands, (and certainly by the Include directives as I noted above). So the remedy there is to delete the node_modules directory and then recreate it with yarn install (this is what I am doing at least).

[vladp]

@barthap @Kudo I found what was causing this expo-av induced build problem. It took me may be 100 of iterations over the course of the year, was very difficult, I have to say.

In my project level gradle, I had

allprojects { 
    buildDir = "${System.getenv('HOME')}/tmp/${rootProject.name}/${project.name}"

In other words, I was directing gradle to use different directory to store build/intermediate results. I had this in place for last 7 years, never caused a problem. It was done so that I can build on windows and linux machines without running into ‘long path name’ issues.

The build process that expo-av introduced, involves, apparently generating fbjni.h in-place (I guess into node_modules directory directly ?). When I looked into my buildDir (find . -name “fbjni.h”) – I saw the fbjni.h file there. So it was generated correctly into that folder, but I am guessing the way that header include is setup in expo-av, it does not consider this way of configuring the build steps, so the compiler could not find the header files…