I am creating a KMP iOS project. I wish to: - cre...

# multiplatform

[coolcat]

I am creating a KMP iOS project.

I wish to:
• create a stand-alone library (let’s call it lib) that consumes a native iOS dependency via Cocoapods
• consume this library in my iOS app, whose KMP component is called composeApp
• do this without having to manually include the native iOS dependency in my iOS app (i.e. the dependency should be transparently included in the native app)
My composeApp build.gradle.kts looks like:

cocoapods {
  ios.deploymentTarget = "13.5"
  version = "1.0"
  summary = "..."
  homepage = "..."
  podfile = project.file("../iosApp/Podfile")

  framework {
    baseName = "ComposeAppFramework"

    export(project(":lib"))
    @OptIn(ExperimentalKotlinGradlePluginApi::class)
    transitiveExport = true
  }
}

My lib build.gradle.kts looks like:

cocoapods {
  ios.deploymentTarget = "13.5"
  version = "1.0"
  summary = "..."
  homepage = "..."

  pod("FirebaseAuth") {
    version = "11.4.0"
  }
}

My current problem is when I build my app I get the error:

ld: framework 'FirebaseAuth' not found

Clearly my iOS app cannot find the FirebaseAuth pod. The generated composeApp.podspec does not contain a reference to FirebaseAuth, but the lib app’s lib.podspec does:

spec.dependency 'FirebaseAuth', '11.4.0'

How can I make this dependency visible to my iOS app?

[yousefa2]

You can try making your lib a static framework which will mean it will bundle Firebase as part of its files AFAIK. Otherwise you want to stick with dynamic frameworks then define firebase in iosApp/Podfile as a dependency