GeneratedInfoPlistDotEnv.h not updated on cmd-builds (iOS)

[rafaelmaeuer]

Today I was wondering why my .env-vars were not updated on iOS when building the app from cmd.
It works fine when the build is triggered from Xcode directly, so that seemed a little curious to me.

I use app-version and build-number from .env to sync iOS and Android-versions. I noticed a mismatch of build-numbers when reading directly from Config.APP_BUILD (not updated) and DeviceInfo.getBuildNumber() (updated). As DeviceInfo gets the information from info.plist, the updated var was somewhere lost on the way into the JS-code.

After some investigation and reading lots of issues here, I came to the point that GeneratedInfoPlistDotEnv.h was not updated, when building the app from command-line using npx react-native run-ios. So my current workaround is another preprocess-script that deletes the file before every build. It forces the file to be re-generated and the updated var is available in JS too:

If anyone knows a better fix or solution please let me know!

[rafaelmaeuer]

Maybe #409, #591, #615 and #698 are related?

Solution inspired by How do I force Xcode to rebuild the Info.plist file in my project every time I build the project?

[ujosat]

Use 1.4.4

[StationSoen]

Are there any updates on this? It's still happening 😢

[rafaelmaeuer]

Still valid, can't believe it as almost 2 years have passed - using following pre-action script:

# react-native-config: remove built file (fix) and generate xcconfig
rm -f ${BUILD_DIR}/GeneratedInfoPlistDotEnv.h
"${SRCROOT}/../node_modules/react-native-config/ios/ReactNativeConfig/BuildXCConfig.rb" "${SRCROOT}/.." "${SRCROOT}/tmp.xcconfig"