Usage of pods static library in user's project.

[alloy]

Currently the user still has to perform these steps:

• Link against libraries that the pods library links against
• Add header search paths that were added to the pods library

The user also has to perform these steps, but this might just be the simplest way that xcode allows:

• Add pods static library to workspace
• Configure project to Always Search User Paths and set User Header Search Paths to $(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)

In addition, some changes to the pods static library project had to be made:

• Change Public Headers Folder Path to $(TARGET_NAME)
• Change Installation Directory to $(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)

Most of this info was taken from: http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/04/04/using-open-source-static-libraries-in-xcode-4

[alloy]

In order to make the app link the right libraries in the simplest way seems to be to generate an xcconfig file that the user's target configurations need to be based on. This also fixes the other extra settings needed in the user's app. I’ve added some code that generates xcconfig files like:

USER_HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = $(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)
ALWAYS_SEARCH_USER_PATHS = YES
OTHER_LDFLAGS = -framework SystemConfiguration -framework CFNetwork -framework MobileCoreServices -l z.1.2.3 -l xml2.2.7.3
HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = "$(SDKROOT)/usr/include/libxml2"

[alloy]

Still need to write-up how the user should setup her project to use cocoa-pods.

[fabiopelosin]

Can this issue be closed?

[alloy]

@irrationalfab Yeah definitely. I think it’s best if you just close tickets when you think that’s the correct course and optionally say ‘re-open if still applicable’ :)

[JanC]

Hi,
could you write a how to in the docs about how we are supposed to user CocoaPods in a Workspace that has both an "App" project and a static library project. I have troubles setting up such a environment. See this

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/cocoapods/DOVaKHXzfnI

cheers,
Jan

[fabiopelosin]

Regarding the thread on the mailing list

platform :ios, '6.0'
# Pods used by the main App project
pod 'MACachedImageView', '~> 1.0.0'
pod 'RegexKitLite', '~> 4.0'
pod 'CocoaLumberjack', '~> 1.6'
# Pods used by the library project
xcodeproj 'PStatsKit/PStatsKit/PStatsKit'
target :PStatsKit do
    pod 'RegexKitLite', '~> 4.0'
end

The xcodeproj directive refers to the current target so a correct setup would have been:

target :PStatsKit do
  xcodeproj 'PStatsKit/PStatsKit/PStatsKit'
  pod 'RegexKitLite', '~> 4.0'
end

[JanC]

Hi,
I tried doing as you wrote in this project

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7blzr46ckgi8wua/MyApp2.zip

but I'm getting the error

could not automatically select an Xcode workspace. Specify one in your Podfile.

The Podfile included in the zip is:

platform :ios, '6.0'


target :MyApp do
    pod 'MBProgressHUD', '~> 0.5'
    pod 'SEHumanizedTimeDiff', '~> 0.0.1'
end


target :MyLibrary do
    xcodeproj 'MyLibrary'
    pod 'SEHumanizedTimeDiff', '~> 0.0.1'
end

[fabiopelosin]

When there is one than more project you need to specify the name of the workspace manually:

workspace 'MyApp'
platform :ios, '6.0'

target :MyApp do
    pod 'MBProgressHUD', '~> 0.5'
    pod 'SEHumanizedTimeDiff', '~> 0.0.1'
end


target :MyLibrary do
    xcodeproj 'MyLibrary'
    pod 'SEHumanizedTimeDiff', '~> 0.0.1'
end

[JanC]

thanks @irrationalfab, that worked ;)

[JanC]

Hi,
yet another problem :( If MyLibrary uses pod 'ASIHTTPRequest', '~> 1.8.1', I get a linker error:

can't locate file for: -lxml2.2
file: -lxml2.2 is not an object file (not allowed in a library)
can't locate file for: -lz.1
file: -lz.1 is not an object file (not allowed in a library)

This is the same problem as in #830 ... but shouldn't CocoaPods handle this ?