Since Apple withdrew the API for accessing Safari bookmarks ten years ago and is still working on a replacement API (FB5929825 and FB7772296), my macOS apps (Notarized Developer ID) have accessed Safari bookmarks via an XPC service which links to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework. Doing this requires that the XPC service' Build Settings have the following Other Linker Flags:
-weak_framework Safari
-Wl,-dyld_env -Wl,DYLD_VERSIONED_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari
(The above is complicated by the fact that the target Safari framework can sometimes be in a staged framework depending on Apple's development cycle.)
Anyhow, upon trying to build with Xcode 13 for the first time this morning, I found that the Ld command fails when linking my XPC service, emitting this error:
Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_WebBookmarkList", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in SheepSafariHelper.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
The class WebBookmarkList is indeed defined in the Safari private framework and is apparently the first such class that it attempts to link to.
I know that Safari framework is still there, because my app still builds and links with no errors in Xcode 12.5, and runs OK in macOS 12. (I am running both Xcodes in macOS 12.)
Does anyone know what changed in Xcode 13, and is there a workaround?
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jerrykrinock
Add a CommentI'm surprised no one else is mee-too-ing this. Just to confirm, I have tried it several more times since yesterday. Build in Xcode 12.5 – no problem. Quit Xcode 12.5, launch Xcode 13, same project, same target, same scheme, have not changed anything. Build – fails as described above.