Xcframework with Pods Dependencies

XCFramework with Pods Dependencies

You can create a pod and publish it.

Check https://guides.cocoapods.org/making/making-a-cocoapod.html

Sample Podspec file with XCFramework + Third party dependency

Pod::Spec.new do |s|  
    s.name              = 'XCFrameworkTest' # Name for your pod
    s.version           = '0.0.1'
    s.summary           = 'Sample Spec'
    s.homepage          = 'https://www.google.com'

    s.author            = { 'Sample' => 'sample@sample.com' }
    s.license = { :type => "MIT", :text => "MIT License" }

    s.platform          = :ios
    # change the source location
    s.source            = { :http => 'http://localhost:8080/XCFrameworkTest.zip' } 
    s.ios.deployment_target = '10.0'
    s.ios.vendored_frameworks = 'XCFrameworkTest.xcframework' # Your XCFramework
    s.dependency 'PromisesSwift', '1.2.8' # Third Party Dependency
end 

After you publish your pod, Customer can use cocopods to get our framework.

In Customer's Podfile

pod 'XCFrameworkTest' #Your pod name

How to create XCFramework for closed source CocoaPod when it has dependencies on other pods

To resolve this, what I did is create a Podfile for the framework project and run pod install so it has its own workspace. I verified I was able to successfully build the framework in Xcode when opening that workspace. Then to create the archive, specify it should build the workspace rather than the project like so:

xcodebuild archive \
-workspace MyFramework.xcworkspace \
-scheme MyFramework \
-configuration Release \
-destination 'generic/platform=iOS' \
-archivePath './build/MyFramework.framework-iphoneos.xcarchive' \
SKIP_INSTALL=NO \
BUILD_LIBRARIES_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES

From what I understand, when you create the XCFramework, the dependencies won't be included it will only be your own framework. But the dependencies have to be accessible in order to successfully build the archive. So this understanding resolves the confusion I had when asking this question. Now I can proceed to create a CocoaPod for my XCFramework and specify its dependencies in the Podspec file.

What should be the Podspec file for using local .xcframework in React Native library?

I was able to fix this issue using:

s.source_files = "ios/*.{h,m,swift}"
s.vendored_frameworks = 'ios/Frameworks/MyLibrary.xcframework'

& also by updating the Framework Search Paths from the Build Settings to $(inherited).

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