I have set of .xcframework files, and currently I working on a static library
I need to integrate those .xcframework files into my static library, but it seems Build settings menu and build phase menu on a static library project is different and I can't add .xcframwork files like I used to do on a Xcode app project
You add dependencies under Build Phases tab, in Link Binary With Libraries step:
Be advised that in this scenario you cannot embed any framework. It either has to be delivered alongside the library or adding the dependencies has to be part of the library integration instructions. I.e. the consumers of your library will need to add this xcframework dependency manually in their target.
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I am developing several projects in a single workspace (monorepo). The workspace contains a shared framework that contains code shared between the projects. Some of the code depends on external packages that I import using the Swift Package Manager. Everything is working except that the packages aren't recognized when I use the UI testing target. When I run the UI tests for one of the projects it complains that the packages cannot be found (in the framework). Another solution that suits my needs is also welcome. Anyway, I'm using Xcode 11.3. To reproduce:
Create a new workspace.
Add a new project A and a new framework B into the workspace.
Add any dependency (for example SDWebImage) to the framework.
Add a Swift-file to the framework that just does import SDWebImage.
Now add framework B as a dependency to project A.
If you build project A or unit test project A, there is no problem. However, when you run UI tests on project A it complains that it cannot find the module SDWebImage in the Swift-file you added in point 4 above. Any idea how to solve this?
Edit: When I use Cocoapods instead it gives me the same error. When I use use_frameworks! it doesn't give me the error, but it crashes with "SDWebImage: image not found".
You have to manually add your B framework as a linked library in on your UI Tests target under Build Phases -> Link Binary With Libraries
I am building an iOS, code scanner project using ZBar SDK. I am trying to build my project directly from the source of ZBar, rather than including the libzbar.a static library.
I have downloaded the ZBar source which includes the XCode project to build libzbar.a. I tried copying all source files from the project but it didn't work. I keep on getting undefined symbol errors.
What source files should be included, considering that I need to support only iOS?
Should the folder structure be strictly followed to build the project?
Would there be any need of build settings if I direcly include the source files?
EDIT:
I followed the same folder structure and build settings used in the XCode project of libzbar. I have managed to build the library but it's still failing while linking. I get the error: ld: duplicate symbol _OBJC_METACLASS for all the source files. I have double checked, there are no references to the original libzbar.a static library in the project or more than one occurrence of these source files. If I remove the references for them, the project builds fine, but then fails whenever any symbol from the library is referenced. I think I am still missing something!!
I have solved this problem finally. Here are the steps that I did:
1) Copied the source files of the project to my project.
2) Removed the dependency of libzbar.a from my project.
3) Added the path to the folder containing the source and headers to the Header Search Paths build setting of the project.
4)Added the following user defined build setting to the project:
EXCLUDE_SOURCE_FILE_NAMES
GCC_MODEL_TUNING
PREBINDING and
USE_HEADERMAP
You should create the static library your self from the source code then add the output static library to your project, or link the projects together and force a build of the static library before your project is build.
After downloading the zip file from the default Mercurial repository and opening the file in xCode, click on the "EmbedReader" part of the target selection drop down box and switch to "zBarSDK"
Once you switch to the zBarSDK, just build from the product menu and you should have your static library file....
I used ZXing lib before and it integrated well. It was included as a project and main project has target dependency to build it before main project. I edited it's sources for my needs and have no problems working with it.
I used this tutorial. It can be helpful for your needs too.
Hi I'm trying to create a static library that can added to any ios project, but I can only get it to work such that if I build the library in ios3, it'll work for ios3 projects but not ios4 and vice versa.
The errors I get are:
Undefined symbols:
".objc_class_name_UIImage", referenced from:
literal-pointer#_OBJC#_cls_refs#UIImage in Test3-Release.a(TestViewController.o)
".objc_class_name_NSNotificationCenter", referenced from:
literal-pointer#_OBJC#_cls_refs#NSNotificationCenter in Test3-Release.a(Test.o)
So it looks like it's not finding Foundation and UIKit frameworks for the library?
Here's what I've done so far:
I have 2 projects: 1 is a library project with a library build target. The other is a Test Project that tries to use the library built in the first library.
1) Create a project with a static library target and added all of the implementation files
2) Added libraries like UIKit, Foundation, etc to the "Link Binary with Libraries folder and Set all the linked libraries to have a weak type in my library target.
3) Built the library, added it to my test project, along with my header files.
4) In my test project, I set other linker flags to -ObjC -all_load for all build configurations
When I compile it gives me a bunch of errors as if I didn't include any frameworks.
Anyone have any ideas on what I should do?
Hint (Maybe?)
I also noticed that adding any frameworks to the "Link Binary with Libraries" folder in my library target doesn't seem to do anything. I added CoreLocation to that folder, but when I try to compile in my Test Project it won't compile until I add CoreLocation to my Test Project Frameworks folder.
your dependent project (that uses static library) hassn't linked Framewrok libraries.
Just add to dependent project frameworks (uikIt,Foundation, etc) all will work fine.
I have created a cocoa touch static library that contains functionality that I want to include in several apps. This library is linked to libxml and I have the header search path /usr/include/libxml2. The library builds correctly.
I include this library in another xcode project as a reference (by dragging the library xcodeproj file into my app xcode project. I also setup the target to have the library as a direct dependency, setup the header search path to include /usr/include/libxml2, and add libxml2.dylib in the frameworks.
The problem is, when I try to build the project is has a build error:
Libxml/tree.h: No such file or directory.
I initially had this problem trying to build the library and solved it by adding the header search path and framework into the project for libxml2.
Incidentally, i have another app that uses the library but does not use libxml, it builds and runs correctly.
So the problem seems to be using libxml in both the app and a linked library.
Anybody any ideas?
Yours hopefully,
Neil.
You probably need to add the include path /usr/include/libxml2 to both the target and the project.
To add it to the target, right click on the target and select Get Info.
To add it to the project, go to the Project menu > Edit Project Settings.
In both cases, make sure you've selected Configuration: "All Configurations".
I have created a static library in XCode called TestLib.
I then created a simple test project that will use this library. I dragged the TestLib xcode project into my test project (frameworks section - if it matters), and set TestLib as a direct dependency of the test project.
I am having trouble importing header files from the Library, I only have 1 in there (its a test project) called TestLibHeader.h, but no matter how I attempt to import them, I get compile errors stating that the header file cannot be found.
Where am I going wrong?
You need to tell your build target where to look for the header files for a given build configuration.
in XCode 3.x
Double click on your build target.
Click on the Build tab.
Search for the build setting Header Search Paths
Set Header Search Paths to include the path the header files in your library project.
See the instructions for setting up three20 as a dependency for a good example of these steps in action.