TL;DR How to move/distribute built framework for i...

# multiplatform

[Nikita Khlebushkin]

TL;DR
How to move/distribute built framework for iOS to another machine?

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I have a framework in KMP with cocoapods dependency. I'm building it by ./gradlew modulepodspec, then add the location to Podfile and run pod install. Finally, I'm building iOS project that has the build phase from .podspec and it uses Framework and it's all good.

Now, I need to plug the output framework into a project on another machine, so I go to build/bin/iosX64/debugFramework and send the myproject.framework to my friend on the another machine. He plugs it into Xcode, runs a build for simulator and gets

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_AnalyticsInitParameters", referenced from:
      objc-class-ref in Analytic.o
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_AnalyticsAnalytics", referenced from:
      objc-class-ref in Analytic.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

1. Is there a right way to distribute resulted iOS framework?
2. What am I doing wrong?

[Kris Wong]

why mix cocoapods and manually sending frameworks?

[Kris Wong]

when you build a framework, it doesn't embed all it's dependencies

[Nikita Khlebushkin]

@Kris Wong what would be the right choice?

[Nikita Khlebushkin]

I was trying to look for how to publish a cocoapods from KMP, but I didn't find anything usable

[Kris Wong]

you publish it the same way you do any CocoaPod

[Nikita Khlebushkin]

I've never done this in my life

[Kris Wong]

https://guides.cocoapods.org/

[Nikita Khlebushkin]

Do you mean pod lib create [pod name] ?

[Nikita Khlebushkin]

Awesome, thanks!

[russhwolf]

Docs on cocoapods integration with Kotlin/Native at https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native/cocoapods.html if it helps. There's a sample project linked on that page.

[Nikita Khlebushkin]

@russhwolf in the sample and docs the cocoapod is used from Xcode locally, with a build phase that runs Gradle script and builds it. I don't really want to distribute a library that needs to be built by clients before using