fix: Fix undefined symbols when syncing

[mrousavy]

A super long standing issue in native dependencies of native dependencies (e.g. VisionCamera -> Worklets, or NitroImage -> Nitro) was that the second native dependency's symbols can no longer be linked after some time. E.g. after gradle syncs, or another npm install.

Apparently the guys at SWM found a fix for this (so huge shoutout to @tomekzaw!), and this needs to be applied to all third party dependencies.

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[tomekzaw]

Hey, thanks for the shoutout as well as mentioning the source of the workaround – we really appreciate this! ❤️

While this approach indeed fixes the issue, it's far from ideal, as it basically runs the build process during Gradle sync and it takes plenty of time for a thing that should take at most seconds.

The same issue appeared in Reanimated (after we moved Worklets to a separate dependency). I've tried to apply the very same approach in software-mansion/react-native-reanimated#7781 but noticed that with the change Gradle sync takes couple of minutes which is unacceptable.

@lukmccall pointed out that prefab is supposed to be used to link prebuilds rather than for building the dependencies from source. He also suggested that we should avoid using prefab in favor of "manual" linking. We've submitted another draft PR that does exactly that: software-mansion/react-native-reanimated#7866 Now we just need to declare a dependency between build tasks (so that Reanimated is built after Worklets) and perhaps find a better way to obtain the path for libworklets.so in debug/release mode once it's properly stripped etc.

[mrousavy]

nvm we fixed this with this: 92abaaa