How to use Swift package manager to manage your own frameworks & 3rd party binary frameworks dependency

Project Overview

• DemoFramework：Custom framework project to build our own framework (Use fastlane to build XCFramework)
• DemoFrameworkPackage：Custom Swift Package to import DemoFramework and 3rd party frameworks (boost.xcframework for example)
• DemoPackage：Custom Swift Package to manage multiple dependency
• DemoApp：App project to import one single DemoPackage, it will import all dependency automatically

How to build XCFramework

How to build XCFramework

Using xcodebuild

Build framework for iOS arm64

xcodebuild archive \
-scheme DemoFramework \
-destination "generic/platform=iOS" \
-archivePath ../output/DemoFramework \
SKIP_INSTALL=NO \
BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES

Build framework for iOS Simulator arm64 & x86_64

xcodebuild archive \
-scheme DemoFramework \
-destination "generic/platform=iOS Simulator" \
-archivePath ../output/DemoFramework-Sim \
SKIP_INSTALL=NO \
BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES

Create XCFramwork

xcodebuild -create-xcframework \
-framework ./DemoFramework.xcarchive/Products/Library/Frameworks/DemoFramework.framework \
-framework ./DemoFramework-Sim.xcarchive/Products/Library/Frameworks/DemoFramework.framework \
-output ./DemoFramework.xcframework

Using Fastlane

Setup Fastlane

Using create_xcframework plug-in

Fastlane create_xcframework plug-in

How to use Swift package

A Step by Step Guide on how to Create a XCFramework and Distribute it as a Swift package

A Practical Approach on Using Swift Package Manager in Xcode

Distributing Binary Frameworks as Swift Packages