EAS cli unable to read bundle identifier and other environment variables in .pbxproj file

[jayshah123]

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Summary

In my bareworkflow app, I am trying to run eas build --profile development,
The build does not start at all on expo.dev, because of validation error below:

I get error with:

Could not read bundle identifier from Xcode project (target = myappname, build configuration = Release).

The reason is that value of app bundle identifier in the .pbxproj file is

PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER = "$(EXPO_PUBLIC_APP_BUNDLE_ID)";

This is because we still rely on react-native-config related .env file which holds value for EXPO_PUBLIC_APP_BUNDLE_ID, before we fully adopt CNG/prebuild.

Note: I am not ignoring .env as part of .easignore.

contents of my eas.json

{
  "cli": {
    "version": ">= 12.5.0",
    "appVersionSource": "local"
  },
  "build": {
    "development": {
      "developmentClient": true,
      "distribution": "internal",
      "channel": "development",
      "ios": {
        "enterpriseProvisioning": "universal"
      }
    },
    "preview": {
      "distribution": "internal",
      "environment": "preview",
      "channel": "preview",
      "ios": {
        "enterpriseProvisioning": "universal"
      }
    },
    "production": {
      "autoIncrement": true,
      "channel": "production"
    }
  },
  "submit": {
    "production": {}
  }
}

Managed or bare?

bare

Environment

  expo-env-info 1.2.0 environment info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 15.1.1
      Shell: 5.9 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 18.13.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v18.13.0/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.18.0 - ~/.yarn/bin/yarn
      npm: 8.19.3 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v18.13.0/bin/npm
      Watchman: 2024.10.21.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
    Managers:
      CocoaPods: 1.14.3 - /Users/jshah/.rbenv/shims/pod
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: DriverKit 24.0, iOS 18.0, macOS 15.0, tvOS 18.0, visionOS 2.0, watchOS 11.0
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 2022.3 AI-223.8836.35.2231.10811636
      Xcode: 16.0/16A242d - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      @expo/metro-config: 0.18.11 => 0.18.11 
      expo: 50.0.20 => 50.0.20 
      react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0 
      react-native: 0.73.9 => 0.73.9 
    npmGlobalPackages:
      eas-cli: 13.4.2
      expo-cli: 6.3.10
    Expo Workflow: bare

Error output

Could not read bundle identifier from Xcode project (target = myappname, build configuration = Release).

Reproducible demo or steps to reproduce from a blank project

eas build --profile development

[thaiscristine]

+1

@jayshah123 did you find a solution?

[szdziedzic]

If you want to get unblocked for now you can use EAS_DANGEROUS_OVERRIDE_IOS_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER env var to skip bundle ID detection logic