Is it possible to create xcframework from Xcode IDE ?

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himanshujain1808 OP

Created Dec ’19

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Hi,

As per documentation, we can create xcframework in 2 steps :

1: Creating archive for different platforms (example 1 for iphoneos and 1 for macosx)

2: Create xcframework using the command line option - xcodebuild -create-xcframework.

Is it possible to create xcframework from Xcode IDE similar to creating ".framework" from Xcode IDE ?

I couldn't find any utility from Xcode IDE to build xcframeworks.

Thanks and Regards,

Himanshu

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Dec ’19

This isn't possible with Xcode 11. Please file an enhancement request.

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Answer 2

Sasha Cohn OP

Oct ’20

What we ended up with, run a small custom script as a pre-compile build step for each target that depends on the xcframework. The naïve approach is to check that the directory exists. It could be improved by triggering a build of the default target of the project that produces the xcframework, and proceeding to the script if that build is not nop.

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Answer 3

mgy OP

May ’21

Not exactly what you ask I know, but here is another alternative on the command-line, maybe you can add to your CI line even (didn't try that). It's a Command Line Tool to create XCFrameworks:

https://github.com/gurhub/surmagic

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