[Cocoapods] Xcode 14.3 generates an error when adding SwiftQRCodeGenerator as a dependency for macOS

[dagronf]

Hi there!

I've noticed an unusual issue when trying to add SwiftQRCodeGenerator as a dependency in my podspec file

s.dependency                 'SwiftQRCodeGenerator'

It would appear that Xcode 14.3 has recently dropped some arc-related frameworks, which affects the minimum deployment versions that can be built with Xcode 14.3, which in turn causes pod spec lint to fail on any podspec that depends on SwiftQRCodeGenerator. If I go back to Xcode 14.2 the issue goes away - so it's definitely been introduced in a later 14.3 release. It appears that the issue only affects the mac build as far as I can tell.

    ld: file not found: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/lib/arc/libarclite_macosx.a
    clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I think this is relating to the 10.10 deployment target. I was wondering whether it would be possible to up the os version in the podspec file to fix this issue for Xcode 14.3?

s.osx.deployment_target     = '10.13'

Existing users who still need support for 10.10 can still link against 1.0.4, so there'd be a backwards compatibility path.

Refs: -

CocoaPods/CocoaPods#11839

and

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/725300

Many thanks for a great library!

[fwcd]

Is this fixed by #6?

[dagronf]

That's great mate. If we could tag that latest release with a v2.0.0 that would allow Cocoapods to pull the updated version when requested.

The Cocoapod's podspec file (SwiftQRCodeGenerator.podspec) defines version 2.0.0.

Pod::Spec.new do |s|
  s.name                      = 'SwiftQRCodeGenerator'
  s.version                   = '2.0.0'
  s.summary                   = 'QR code generator written

[fwcd]

Done

[dagronf]

Brilliant mate. I'm just waiting for the CI to complete which should automatically push the v2.0.0 branch to Cocoapods and then I will test and let you know.

[fwcd]

Looks like we'll have to bump the deployment targets further to build with recent versions of Xcode: https://github.com/fwcd/swift-qrcode-generator/actions/runs/6924089904/job/18832847281

[dagronf]

The deploy action has failed. Seems to be something relating to the authentication when pushing up to Cocoapods.

Have you got some time to check?

[fwcd]

2.0.1 is now deployed

[dagronf]

Ah I'm so sorry to be a pain - but you've updated the podspec to use 2.0.2, but you've only tagged the repo with 2.0.1

Any chance of adding the 2.0.2 tag?

[fwcd]

2.0.2 is tagged and pushed (which should fix the validation check for the iOS target too). 2.0.3 on the main branch is the unreleased development version - I tend to bump version numbers immediately after releasing. I admittedly haven't worked a lot with CocoaPods yet, so if that poses an issue for consuming the pod, let me know.

[dagronf]

Hey @fwcd all looks great. After jumping through some hoops with my own project to get cocoapods updated it all seems to be up and running.

Thank you so much!