iOS build error

[vitoriamacena]

🪲 Description

Compilation error when building iOS project.

🪲 What is the observed behavior?

The build fails with the following error:

❌  (/node_modules/react-native-sound/ios/RNSound.mm:180:73)

  178 | #pragma mark - Audio Control Methods
  179 | 
> 180 | RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(prepare:(NSString *)fileName key:(double)key options:(JS::NativeSoundIOS::SoundOptionTypes &)options callback:(RCTResponseSenderBlock)callback ) {
      |                                                                         ^ use of undeclared identifier 'JS'
  181 |     NSError *error;
  182 |     NSURL *fileNameUrl;
  183 |     AVAudioPlayer *player;


❌  (/node_modules/react-native-sound/ios/RNSound.mm:180:73)

  178 | #pragma mark - Audio Control Methods
  179 | 
> 180 | RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(prepare:(NSString *)fileName key:(double)key options:(JS::NativeSoundIOS::SoundOptionTypes &)options callback:(RCTResponseSenderBlock)callback ) {
      |                                                                         ^ expected a type
  181 |     NSError *error;
  182 |     NSURL *fileNameUrl;
  183 |     AVAudioPlayer *player;

🪲 What is the expected behavior?

The library should compile successfully on iOS.

🪲 Please post your code:

  Sound.setCategory('Alarm', true);

  const alarm = new Sound(
    'critical_notification.mp3',
    Sound.MAIN_BUNDLE,
    error => {
      if (error) {
        console.log('Failed to load the sound', error);
        return;
      }

      alarm.play(success => {
        if (success) {
          console.log('Successfully finished playing');
        } else {
          console.log('Playback failed due to audio decoding errors');
        }
      });
    }
  );

💡 Is there a workaround?

Not a long-term solution that I am aware of.

💡 If the bug is confirmed, would you be willing to create a pull request?

Yes, I can help if guidance is provided.

Is your issue with...

• iOS
• Android
• Windows

Are you using...

• React Native CLI (e.g. react-native run-android)
• Expo
• Other: (please specify)

Which versions are you using?

• React Native Sound: 0.13.0
• React Native: 0.76.9
• iOS:
• Android:
• Windows:

Does the problem occur on...

• Simulator
• Device

If your problem is happening on a device, which device?

• Device: iPhone 14

[pSapien]

@vitoriamacena did you find any fix to this issue?

[vitoriamacena]

@vitoriamacena did you find any fix to this issue?

No, I ended up adding it to my react-native.config.js then use only for Android.

// react-native.config.js

module.exports = {
  dependencies: {
    'react-native-sound': {
      platforms: {
        ios: null,
      },
    },
  },
};

[abdulmateen-pb]

The current release destroying everything ios build is never successful just waiting for the stable release please release stable version,

[dubiao]

try this:
find the prepare: fileName function in node_modules/react-native-sound/ios/RNSound.mm, and replace it with

#ifdef RCT_NEW_ARCH_ENABLED
RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(prepare:(NSString *)fileName key:(double)key options:(JS::NativeSoundIOS::SoundOptionTypes &)options callback:(RCTResponseSenderBlock)callback ) {
#else
RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(prepare:(NSString *)fileName key:(double)key options:(NSDictionary *)options callback:(RCTResponseSenderBlock)callback ) {
#endif

I am running on Old Arch, and dont have JS in runtime. This fix it to dict type for options.

[chichilatte]

We had the same problem with react-native-sound, having turned off new architecture in our project until the react-native-firebase packages catch up.

The solution was to add this to the ios/Podfile...

  post_install do |installer|

    # react-native-sound v0.13.0: new arch C++ types not guarded
    installer.pods_project.targets.each do |t|
      if t.name == 'RNSound'
        t.build_configurations.each { |c| c.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] = ['$(inherited)', 'RCT_NEW_ARCH_ENABLED=0'] }
      end
    end

  end

Actually, we're using expo, so had to implement this solution as an app.json plugin so that it could survive prebuild cleans (they wipe the ios folder).

Note: The above code was generated by DeepSeek, so ymmv. Works for us!