CocoaPods on M1 MacBooks (Apple Silicon based chip)

CocoaPods doesn’t work out of the box on M1 Macs. Something about ffi and arch stuff. There are workarounds though.

• Open Terminal / iTerm with Rosetta (Get Info > Open using Rosetta)
• Install CocoaPods related commands with arch -x86_64

1# install CocoaPods
2arch -x86_64 sudo gem install cocoapods
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4# install ffi
5arch -x86_64 sudo gem install ffi
6
7# install dependencies
8arch -x86_64 pod install

Links

• CocoaPods compatibility with Apple DTK (Apple Silicon)