bug: Invalid `Podfile` file: cannot load such file '../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios/scripts/pods_helpers'

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 4.1.0
  @capacitor/core: 4.1.0
  @capacitor/android: 4.1.0
  @capacitor/ios: 4.1.0

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 4.1.0
  @capacitor/core: 4.1.0
  @capacitor/android: 4.1.0
  @capacitor/ios: 4.1.0

[success] iOS looking great! 👌
[success] Android looking great! 👌

Platform(s)

ios

Current Behavior

When running npx cap sync, I get the following error

[!] Invalid `Podfile` file: cannot load such file --
/Users/marco/Documents/frontend/apps/code/node_modules/@capacitor/ios/scripts/pods_helpers.

#  from /Users/marco/Documents/frontend/apps/code/ios/App/Podfile:1
#  -------------------------------------------
>  require_relative '../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios/scripts/pods_helpers'
#
#  -------------------------------------------
        

The ‘pods_helper’ path doesn’t get resolved to the right path, because of the monorepo the module is four directories up instead of two.

All the other paths are getting resolved to '../../../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios'.

Expected Behavior

The CLI should resolve the ‘@capacitor/ios’ module and replace the path. For example in my case it would be: require_relative '../../../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios/scripts/pods_helpers' After I changed the path, everything worked fine.

Code Reproduction

I created a yarn monorepo with workspaces: https://github.com/Marcoru97/capacitor-cli-demo

Affected file: https://github.com/Marcoru97/capacitor-cli-demo/blob/main/apps/capacitor-test/ios/App/Podfile

Run npx cap sync to get the error

Other Technical Details

npm --version output: 8.1.0

node --version output: v16.13.0

pod --version output (iOS issues only): 1.11.2

Additional Context

I saw that you are already resolving the package via ‘require.resolve’ but only replaced it in the pods list: https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/blob/17fbabb2a77d1b356d24048efc5883bd4d049104/cli/src/ios/update.ts#L141

[jcesarmobile]

The path is hardcoded in the template, didn’t have mono repos into account. As workaround you can manually change the path because it’s not being written by Capacitor CLI, so if you change it, it won’t be overwritten. We will need to use a regular expression to replace the hardcoded value with the actual value.

[fedorenko-dmitriy]

I wrote the script which changes deps automatically, pls check it and add it into update.js, this helps many people who can not understand why their project doesn’t work

`const { rootDir } = require(‘…/…/…/rootDir.js’);

const lengthRootDir = rootDir.split(‘/’).length; const lengthCurrentDir = __dirname.split(‘/’).length; const relativeDiffLength = lengthCurrentDir - lengthRootDir;

const relativePrefix = getRelativePrefix(relativeDiffLength);

let podFileContent = utils_fs_1.readFileSync(podFilePath, { encoding: ‘utf-8’ }); podFileContent = podFileContent.replace(/require_relative '(…/)+/g, “require_relative '”); podFileContent = podFileContent.replace(‘node_modules/@capacitor/ios/scripts/pods_helpers’, ${relativePrefix}node_modules/@capacitor/ios/scripts/pods_helpers); utils_fs_1.writeFileSync(podFilePath, podFileContent, { encoding: ‘utf-8’ });

function getRelativePrefix(relativeDiffLength) { let relativePrefix = ‘’; let count = 0 while(count <= relativeDiffLength) { count++ relativePrefix = relativePrefix + ‘…/’ }

return relativePrefix; }`