Building for iOS Simulator, But the Linked Framework '****.Framework' Was Built for iOS

Xcode 12.3: Building for iOS Simulator, but the linked and embedded framework was built for iOS + iOS Simulator

I'm afraid that this is actually the correct error and the framework shouldn't contain iOS and iOS Simulator code at the same time. Apple tries to force us to use XCFrameworks for this purpose. They started it in Xcode 11 and just tightened up the restrictions.

The only correct way to resolve this is to rebuild the framework as an XCFramework. Which is easy to do:

xcrun xcodebuild -create-xcframework \
    -framework /path/to/ios.framework \
    -framework /path/to/sim.framework \
    -output combined.xcframework

You can start with a combined .framework. Make two copies of the framework, and use lipo to remove the slices from the binary that are associated with a different SDK.

It is based on the original answer from Apple here.

My particular case is that I'm getting this error using Rome, which produces these frameworks (a possible solution is here). Also, a lot of struggling is going on on the Carthage side.

Xcode building for iOS Simulator, but linking in an object file built for iOS, for architecture 'arm64'

Basically, you have to exclude arm64 for the simulator architecture, both from your project and the Pod project.

• To do that, navigate to Build Settings of your project and add Any iOS Simulator SDK with value arm64 inside Excluded Architecture.

  

OR

• If you are using custom XCConfig files, you can simply add this line for excluding simulator architecture.

  EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*] = arm64
  

  Then

  You have to do the same for the Pod project until all the Cocoa pod vendors are done adding following in their Podspec.

  s.pod_target_xcconfig = { 'EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]' => 'arm64' }
  s.user_target_xcconfig = { 'EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]' => 'arm64' }
  

  You can manually add the Excluded Architecture in your Pod project's Build Settings, but it will be overwritten when you
  use pod install.

  In place of this, you can add this snippet in your Podfile. It will write the necessary Build Settings every time you run pod install.

  post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings["EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]"] = "arm64"
    end
  end
  

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