I’m using the new Experimental DSL to produce an XCFramework for iOS. My setup is pretty basic (a single module), and it seems to work (I can see the output xcframework in my build folder when I run the

assembleMyLibXCFramework

task. So far so good. Here’s how I have it configured:

kotlinArtifacts {
    Native.XCFramework("MyLib") {
        targets(iosX64, iosArm64, iosSimulatorArm64)
        modes(NativeBuildType.DEBUG, NativeBuildType.RELEASE)

        linkerOptions = linkerOptions + listOf("-lsqlite3")
    }
}

Sooo … Now I want to publish the xcframework via cocoapods (eventually SPM as well, but one thing at a time…). I don’t see how the new DSL to produce the framework works with the existing

cocoapods

DSL provided by the

native.cocoapods

plugin? Or maybe they don’t work together at all? Can I publish an XCFramework generated with the Experimental DSL using cocoapods? How so?

My understanding is that they not work together even if they do similar. The

native.cocoapods

is an all-included where it create a

.framework

and produce a

podspec

file to work with. I would say you are better dealing with cocoapods directly. Because yes you can publish an XCFramework using Cocoapods. You can have a look here starting from the

How to distribute XCFrameworks using Cocoapods

part https://anuragajwani.medium.com/distributing-universal-ios-frameworks-as-xcframeworks-using-cocoapods-699c70a5c961

In 1.8.20 there will be some integration that would allow you to generate podspec together with a XCFramework. But you can distribute it now too, you’ll just need to write a basic podspec by hand