Build from source fails at, could not find ANDROID_NDK_VERSION

Description

I am trying to build from source, and it seems I have set up everything correctly but the build still fails.with the following error. Any help would be appreciated

❯ ./gradlew clean

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/ashish/projects/tarana/node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/build.gradle' line: 450

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':ReactAndroid'.
> Could not get unknown property 'ANDROID_NDK_VERSION' for extension 'android' of type com.android.build.gradle.LibraryExtension.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/6.9/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

BUILD FAILED in 6s

Version

0.67.2

Output of npx react-native info

❯ npx react-native info
warn Package lint-staged has been ignored because it contains invalid configuration. Reason: Package subpath './package.json' is not defined by "exports" in /Users/ashish/projects/tarana/node_modules/lint-staged/package.json
info Fetching system and libraries information...
System:
    OS: macOS 11.6.1
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz
    Memory: 515.24 MB / 20.00 GB
    Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.22.10 - ~/n/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.11 - ~/n/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.14.16 - ~/n/bin/npm
    Watchman: 2022.01.03.00 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
  Managers:
    CocoaPods: 1.10.2 - /usr/local/bin/pod
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: DriverKit 21.2, iOS 15.2, macOS 12.1, tvOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3
    Android SDK:
      API Levels: 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
      Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 30.0.2, 31.0.0, 32.0.0, 32.1.0
      System Images: android-29 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom
      Android NDK: 21.4.7075529
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 2020.3 AI-203.7717.56.2031.7935034
    Xcode: 13.2.1/13C100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
    Java: 11.0.11 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: Not Found
    react-native: Not Found
    react-native-macos: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

I ran ./gradlew clean and it appeared

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

Not available

[SeanDunford]

Was experiencing a similar issue after upgrading to react-native@0.68.1

The proposed addition to settings.gradle did not help:

includeBuild('../node_modules/react-native/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin') {
   dependencySubstitution {
       substitute(module("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")).using(project(":"))
   }
}

but using the following line

includeBuild('../node_modules/react-native-gradle-plugin')

from the upgrade guide did help. https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/?from=0.67.4&to=0.68.1

[cortinico]

A problem occurred configuring root project ‘tarana’.

Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ‘:classpath’. Could not find com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin:.

The fix for this specific issue is to update your settings.gradle as follows:

-includeBuild('../node_modules/react-native/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin')
+includeBuild('../node_modules/react-native/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin') {
+   dependencySubstitution {
+       substitute(module("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")).using(project(":"))
+   }
+}

The problem is that you’re using an older revision of the repo, therefore the wiki is updated to use the latest main. Building from source from different revision is generally not supported (i.e. you’re on your own) as there are those kinds of incompatibilities, and we can’t provide instructions for all the possible RN versions/branches.