I am not able to build the KMM template - <https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-ios-an...

# compose-ios

[Sudhir Singh Khanger]

I am not able to build the KMM template - https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-ios-android-template

Execution failed for task ':shared:podInstall'.
> 'pod install' command failed with code 1.
  Full command: pod install
  Error message:
      [33mWARNING: CocoaPods requires your terminal to be using UTF-8 encoding.
      Consider adding the following to ~/.profile:
      export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
      [0m
  /usr/local/Cellar/ruby@3.0/3.0.6/lib/ruby/3.0.0/unicode_normalize/normalize.rb:141:in `normalize': Unicode Normalization not appropriate for ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError)

I have added the following in the ~/.zprofile file.

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

There is only one podfile in the root of the project where I have already run pod install

[Dima Avdeev]

Hello! You can try to run:

brew install kdoctor
kdoctor

It will help to investigate what's wrong with the environment

[Sudhir Singh Khanger]

According to kdoctor, the environment is setup properly.

[KimJason]

@Sudhir Singh Khanger

iosApp % 
rm -rf Pods
rm Podfile.lock
pod install

and, try again!

[Sudhir Singh Khanger]

@KimJason what is the best way to install cocoapod on Intel Mac? I have used the following way.

sudo gem install cocoapods

[Sudhir Singh Khanger]

And iosApp % meaning I should be in that folder? But I think the podfile is in root folder.

[KimJason]

@Sudhir Singh Khanger
Run the three commands in the iosApp folder under the root project!

[Sudhir Singh Khanger]

@KimJason still not able to build. Here is the full log.

https://gist.github.com/sudhirkhanger/5553bdf9fa987be1c2ebe59514fcf5a5

[Sudhir Singh Khanger]

➜  iosApp git:(main) pod install
Analyzing dependencies
Downloading dependencies
Installing shared (1.0.0)
Generating Pods project
Integrating client project
Pod installation complete! There is 1 dependency from the Podfile and 1 total pod installed.

[KimJason]

I’m not quite sure. 😢 Would you like to try ‘Rebuild Project’?

[Sudhir Singh Khanger]

I can’t do anything because the first gradle sync hasn’t happened yet. So there are no tasks to be executed even the rebuild.

[KimJason]

ChatGPT was a great help when I was trying out Compose Multiplatform. Have you tried sending the error messages to GPT?

[KimJason]

Don’t give up! You just need to overcome a few initial hurdles!

[AlHussain96]

@Sudhir Singh Khanger
look what I did in 1 hour and the problem fixed,

I used chat gpt to add

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

to two file
/.profile
/.zprofile

and the problem didn't solve after that I change the mac user then back to the user and the project build successfully,

it seems that the changes in terminal command have applied after re-login to user,

[Sudhir Singh Khanger]

I don’t know what exactly is the solution but I set shell and environment variables eagerly in both the system and Android Studio. After which a few restarts and it started working.