Integrating AdobeMobileSDK host app and extension libraries causes duplicate link errors

[mgrebenets]

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What did you do?

• Create [manually] static frameworks for AdobeMobileSDK static libraries: https://cocoapods.org/?q=adobemobile.
• I have used version 4.8.5.
• The static frameworks can be found here: https://github.com/mgrebenets/adobemobilesdk-framework

So I have an app with app extensions (e.g. push notifications extensions)

• I add AdobeMobileSDK-Framework pod to my main (host) target
• Next I add AdobeMobileExtensionSDK-Framework pod to my app extension target
• Then run pod install and build a project.

What did you expect to happen?

Expected to build the app.

What happened instead?

Instead I get duplicate symbols link errors, like this:

duplicate symbol _OBJC_METACLASS_$_ADBMessageMatcherLessThan in:
    /path/to/pod/AdobeMobileExtensionSDK.framework/AdobeMobileExtensionSDK(ADBMessageMatcherLessThan.o)
  /path/to/pod/adobemobilesdk-framework/AdobeMobileSDK.framework/AdobeMobileSDK(ADBMessageMatcherLessThan.o)

I am assuming that's because Adobe's libAdobeMobile.a and libAdobeMobile_Extension.a have identical symbols. And then as described here: http://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-1.1.0/, CocoaPods

this means that pod install has to locate any host targets, in which the extension belongs, to integrate those extension targets' dependencies there.

Indeed I can see both AdobeMobileSDK-Framework and AdobeMobileExtensionSDK-Framework in HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS, OTHER_CFLAGS and OTHER_LDFLAGS in the host target's Pods-Target.debug.xcconfig.

So is it really possible to integrate Adobe's libraries or frameworks with CocoaPods this way?

Is it something that CP could address or something that could be resolved with use of cocoapods-package and name mangling?

Or should I get back to Adobe support and request them to have symbols mangled/renamed instead?

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    RubyGems : 2.4.8
        Host : Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G1108)
       Xcode : 8.1 (8B62)
         Git : git version 2.9.3 (Apple Git-75)
Ruby lib dir : /Users/maksym/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.2/lib
Repositories : artsy - https://github.com/Artsy/Specs.git @ 2a9ddb8e56aa3830d12c0dafafd82307684bcaad
               master - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git @ 11a0de6f911201ab7ca15e6df96f222f044e19ad
               odp-cbapodspecs.ios - ssh://git@stash.odp.cba:7999/mob/cbapodspecs.ios.git @ 627b2c94ce26f55e4e92959514a8dc3ece0925f7

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[benasher44]

Hi @mgrebenets! Can you please post your Podfile for this project? Thanks!

[benasher44]

I'm going to close this one, since there hasn't been any activity on it in months. If you're still experiencing this issue, please reopen it with an updated Podfile, and I'd be happy to help out! Have a great day!