I’ve been making React Native apps using

npx create-react-native-app

and installing packages with

npm install

This seems to build and run on an emulator or physical just fine when running using Expo Go

yarn start

The problem seems to come when trying to create a native android build using

npm run android

This seems to get to about 91% complete before I get the following error:

> Task :expo-modules-core:buildCMakeDebug[arm64-v8a] FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':expo-modules-core:buildCMakeDebug[arm64-v8a]'.
> Expected output file at /home/huw/code/test-new/node_modules/expo-modules-core/android/build/intermediates/cxx/Debug/4b96w532/obj/arm64-v8a/libexpo-modules-core.so 
for target expo-modules-core but there was none

My package.json is as follows:

{
  "name": "test-new",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "expo start --dev-client",
    "android": "expo run:android",
    "ios": "expo run:ios",
    "web": "expo start --web"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "expo": "~51.0.14",
    "expo-status-bar": "~1.12.1",
    "react": "18.2.0",
    "react-native": "0.74.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.20.0"
  },
  "private": true
}

I am running Linux Mint.

I have tried the solutions on here and elsewhere. Removing expo-modules-core and reinstalling seems to work for a lot of people, but I’ve tried running both of the following commands and attempting rebuild at each point:

npm install expo-modules-core

npm remove expo-modules-core

Same problems after both.

I have also tried running expo doctor

npx expo-doctor

with it saying it didn’t find any issues with the project.

I’ve also tried deleting everything and starting again several times. I also heard that long file paths can cause problems, so I have kept it as short as possible this time.

I would be very grateful to anyone who can help me solve this issue! Thanks in advance!