From 312b4ff75b0a2407b2819d01b5ef00d7d8d3b4ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alec Larson <1925840+aleclarson@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 01:19:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ios): prefer native CocoaPods before Rosetta

---
 lib/services/cocoapods-service.ts | 31 ++++++--------
 test/cocoapods-service.ts         | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/services/cocoapods-service.ts b/lib/services/cocoapods-service.ts
index 17e433feae..6ef410ce08 100644
--- a/lib/services/cocoapods-service.ts
+++ b/lib/services/cocoapods-service.ts
@@ -57,32 +57,27 @@ export class CocoaPodsService implements ICocoaPodsService {
 
 	public async executePodInstall(
 		projectRoot: string,
-		xcodeProjPath: string
+		xcodeProjPath: string,
 	): Promise<ISpawnResult> {
 		this.$logger.info("Installing pods...");
 		let podTool = this.$config.USE_POD_SANDBOX ? "sandbox-pod" : "pod";
 		const args = ["install"];
 
 		if (process.platform === "darwin" && process.arch === "arm64") {
-			// check if pod is installed as an x86_64 binary or a native arm64 one
-			// we run the following:
-			// arch -x86_64 pod --version
-			// if it's an arm64 binary, we'll get something like this as a result:
-			// arch: posix_spawnp: pod: Bad CPU type in executable
-			// in which case, we should run it natively.
-			const res: string = await this.$childProcess
-				.exec("arch -x86_64 pod --version", null, {
+			try {
+				await this.$childProcess.exec(`${podTool} --version`, null, {
 					showStderr: true,
-				})
-				.then((res) => res.stdout + " " + res.stderr)
-				.catch((err) => err.message);
-
-			if (!res.includes("Bad CPU type in executable")) {
+				});
+			} catch (err) {
+				if (
+					!/Bad CPU type in executable|Exec format error/i.test(err.message)
+				) {
+					throw err;
+				}
 				this.$logger.trace(
-					"Running on arm64 but pod is installed under rosetta2 - running pod through rosetta2"
+					"Native pod execution is unavailable - running pod through rosetta2",
 				);
-				args.unshift(podTool);
-				args.unshift("-x86_64");
+				args.unshift("-x86_64", podTool);
 				podTool = "arch";
 			}
 		}
@@ -92,7 +87,7 @@ export class CocoaPodsService implements ICocoaPodsService {
 			args,
 			"close",
 			{ cwd: projectRoot, stdio: ["pipe", process.stdout, process.stdout] },
-			{ throwError: false }
+			{ throwError: false },
 		);
 
 		if (podInstallResult.exitCode !== 0) {
diff --git a/test/cocoapods-service.ts b/test/cocoapods-service.ts
index 24281b5636..af2f50b65a 100644
--- a/test/cocoapods-service.ts
+++ b/test/cocoapods-service.ts
@@ -820,10 +820,10 @@ end`,
 				options?: any,
 				execOptions?: IExecOptions
 			): Promise<any> => {
-				if (command === "arch -x86_64 pod --version") {
-					// This is the command that is used to check if cocoapods is installed under Rosetta 2
+				if (command.endsWith("pod --version")) {
+					// Native CocoaPods is available.
 					return {
-						stdout: "Bad CPU type in executable",
+						stdout: "1.17.0",
 						stderr: "",
 						exitCode: 0,
 					};
@@ -872,6 +872,69 @@ end`,
 			});
 		});
 
+		describe("on Apple Silicon", () => {
+			let platform: PropertyDescriptor;
+			let arch: PropertyDescriptor;
+			beforeEach(() => {
+				platform = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "platform");
+				arch = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "arch");
+				Object.defineProperty(process, "platform", { value: "darwin" });
+				Object.defineProperty(process, "arch", { value: "arm64" });
+			});
+			afterEach(() => {
+				Object.defineProperty(process, "platform", platform);
+				Object.defineProperty(process, "arch", arch);
+			});
+			["pod", "sandbox-pod"].forEach((podTool) => {
+				[false, true].forEach((needsRosetta) => {
+					it(`uses ${podTool} ${needsRosetta ? "through Rosetta after a native CPU failure" : "natively even when Rosetta is installed"}`, async () => {
+						testInjector.resolve<IConfiguration>("config").USE_POD_SANDBOX =
+							podTool === "sandbox-pod";
+						const childProcess =
+							testInjector.resolve<IChildProcess>("childProcess");
+						const probes: string[] = [];
+						childProcess.exec = async (command: string): Promise<any> => {
+							probes.push(command);
+							if (needsRosetta) {
+								throw new Error("Bad CPU type in executable");
+							}
+							return { stdout: "1.17.0", stderr: "", exitCode: 0 };
+						};
+						childProcess.spawnFromEvent = async (
+							command: string,
+							args: string[],
+						): Promise<ISpawnResult> => {
+							assert.equal(command, needsRosetta ? "arch" : podTool);
+							assert.deepStrictEqual(
+								args,
+								needsRosetta ? ["-x86_64", podTool, "install"] : ["install"],
+							);
+							return { stdout: "", stderr: "", exitCode: 0 };
+						};
+						await cocoapodsService.executePodInstall(
+							projectRoot,
+							xcodeProjPath,
+						);
+						assert.deepStrictEqual(probes, [`${podTool} --version`]);
+					});
+				});
+			});
+			it("preserves unrelated native probe failures", async () => {
+				const childProcess =
+					testInjector.resolve<IChildProcess>("childProcess");
+				childProcess.exec = async (): Promise<any> => {
+					throw new Error("pod: command not found");
+				};
+				childProcess.spawnFromEvent = async (): Promise<ISpawnResult> => {
+					throw new Error("unexpected Rosetta fallback");
+				};
+				await assert.isRejected(
+					cocoapodsService.executePodInstall(projectRoot, xcodeProjPath),
+					"pod: command not found",
+				);
+			});
+		});
+
 		it("calls pod install spawnFromEvent with correct arguments", async () => {
 			const childProcess = testInjector.resolve<IChildProcess>("childProcess");
 			let commandCalled = "";