Facing Issue with new Architecture using (Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, CMake) Task :ReactAndroid:hermes-engine:buildHermes FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

[gunjantaazaa]

Description

Getting this issue while running android build.
I have already check with gradle clean but failed.

Using Windows 10 built-in ICU
Warning: NMake does not support parallel builds. Ignoring parallel build command line option.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA1\MIB0551\2022\COMMUN1\VC\Tools\MSVC\14321.313\bin\Hostx86\x86\cl.exe' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.32.31326\bin\HostX86\x86\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.32.31326\bin\HostX86\x86\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.32.31326\bin\HostX86\x86\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':ReactAndroid:hermes-engine:buildHermes'.

Process 'command 'cmd'' finished with non-zero exit value 2

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Version

0.69.1

Output of npx react-native info

info Fetching system and libraries information...
System:
OS: Windows 10 10.0.22000
CPU: (16) x64 AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 734.17 MB / 7.34 GB
Binaries:
Node: 16.14.2 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn: Not Found
npm: 8.5.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Watchman: Not Found
SDKs:
Android SDK: Not Found
Windows SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: Version 2021.1.0.0 AI-211.7628.21.2111.8309675
Visual Studio: 17.2.32616.157 (Visual Studio Community 2022)
Languages:
Java: 11.0.12
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 18.0.0 => 18.0.0
react-native: 0.69.1 => 0.69.1
react-native-windows: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

Environment configured with Java 11 and node 16.13.0
Install cmake with Set path on System Variable.
Install Visual Studio 2022
Open terminal in Visual Studio 2022.
Run command npx react-native run-android

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

I have also enableHermes but still not works

[rafaelfrancisco-dev]

Facing same issue here

[gunjantaazaa]

project.ext.react = [
enableHermes: true, // clean and rebuild if changing
hermesCommand: '../../node_modules/react-native/sdks/hermesc/%OS-BIN%/hermesc'
]

You have to add hermesc path.
This should fix the issue for Windows 10 and above

#34116 Thanks @jose Luis Leon

[cortinico]

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.32.31326\bin\HostX86\x86\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'

I'm not entirely sure why you're seeing this error code. According to this article it seems like your Visual Studio installation is not complete and needs to be re-installed. Can you try to do so.

[HussainArif12]

Facing the same issue here as well. Here's what I tried to do to fix it:

• Reinstall Android SDK and NDK
• Reinstall Visual Studio and build tools
• Create a blank project and then enable Fabric.
  However, I still failed to resolve the issue.
  Platform: Windows 10
  React Native version: 0.70

[fr-an-k]

I have the same issue with a fresh Build Tools install, CL version 19.34.31933 for x86

[ronickg]

Same issue here as well. Cant get react native 0.70.5 to run on windows

[cortinico]

Task :ReactAndroid:hermes-engine:buildHermes FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception

This issue is fixed in React Native 0.71 (as this task won't be executing anymore).
Please migrate to 0.71 and try again. If the issue persists, open a new issue. Thank you