Hi team, I’m trying to get a build locally from

KMMBridgeKickStart

by running

./gradlew spmDevBuild

and importing the

KMMBridgeKickStart.xcframework

build to an existing Xcode project but seems that Xcode doesn’t find

allshared

reference. Except editing the

GROUP

in gradle.properties, I didn’t do any other configuration setup. Do I need the SPM setup from this page prior to run the

spmDevBuild

task? My team is trying to have a local setup to distribute the

xcframework

with iOS without setting up the entire CI infra (one of the reason is we use Gitlab). Any help please? TIA 🙂

How did you import the xcframework? I haven’t tried directly importing an xcframework. For local spm dev, you’d want to drag the folder in, so Xcode sees the

Package.swift

, but TBH, it’s been a little while since we’ve done only local SPM dev. For KMMBridge, it’s in the context of a published binary, so there may be simpler ways to do it. We do have a fully local dev build for one of our client projects, but we’d need to sync up with them for a better answer.

My team used a local Swift Package for a while before switching to a remote Cocoapod setup. The best way we found was to go to XCode: file -> Add Packages -> Add Local -> Select the package.swift, then click the target (top of the xcode navigation) -> General -> ‘Frameworks, Libraries, and embedded content’ -> + -> Select your package, then Build Phases -> Link Binary with Libraries -> + -> Select your package.

Thanks Kevin and Landry for the detail explanation. Landry, I’m following the instructions you provided but Finder doesn’t allow me to select the package.swift file rather forces me select the entire project (there are 2 package.swift files, one is at the root and another is inside the

allshared

module). To go forward, I select the entire project so that Xcode can recognise the package.swift at the root (which has the local build path to xcframework written). Next, in Frameworks, Libraries, and embedded content option from the General tab, It doesn’t show the framework available meaning was not successfully imported to the project. Is there anything I’m missing?

It’s been a while, but I can check again to make sure I didn’t forget anything.

do you use the command

./gradlew spmDevBuild

or something else to get the xframework build?

I used an older gradle plugin called multiplatform-swift-package, since this project is older than KMM-Bridge. The spmDevBuild should work similarly.

spmDevBuild

is specific to KMMBridge, so for sure you’d need to be using that for that task to show up. There’s also a flag to pass in so you only build the target you want. It’s a bit hacky, but it is the fastest dev turnaround you can do locally.

+1 on using a flag to build only the current target. My builds took 10+ minutes usually using the multiplatform-swift-package plugin.

We have another release that needs to go out that does a better job of separating local and CI dev. Long story.