For those who (like me) stumbled upon this thread trying to create an XCFramework with debug symbols & bitcode, I've made a build-phase script that makes it easy to implement.
Create a new target for your framework that is just for creating the .xcframework container (this is needed because when running this script on the same target, it gets an infinite loop)
Add the script to the target's Build phases --> Add new run script
For the rest, see the comments in the script
Set the output folder var
UNIVERSAL_OUTPUTFOLDER=${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-universal
To make an XCFramework, we first build the framework for every type seperately
echo "XCFramework: Starting script to build an XCFramework. Output dir: ${UNIVERSAL_OUTPUTFOLDER}"
Device slice.
echo "XCFramework: Archiving DEVICE type..."
xcodebuild archive -scheme "${PROJECT_NAME}" -configuration Release -destination 'generic/platform=iOS' -archivePath "${BUILD_DIR}/archives/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework-iphoneos.xcarchive" SKIP_INSTALL=NO
echo "XCFramework: Archiving SIMULATOR type..."
Simulator slice.
xcodebuild archive -scheme "${PROJECT_NAME}" -configuration Release -destination 'generic/platform=iOS Simulator' -archivePath "${BUILD_DIR}/archives/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework-iphonesimulator.xcarchive" SKIP_INSTALL=NO
First, get all the UUID filepaths for BCSymbolMaps, because these are randomly generated and need to be individually added as the `-debug-symbols` parameter. The dSYM path is always the same so that one is manually added
echo "XCFramework: Generating IPHONE BCSymbolMap paths..."
IPHONE_BCSYMBOLMAP_PATHS=(${BUILD_DIR}/archives/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework-iphoneos.xcarchive/BCSymbolMaps/*)
IPHONE_BCSYMBOLMAP_COMMANDS=""
for path in "${IPHONE_BCSYMBOLMAP_PATHS[@]}"; do
IPHONE_BCSYMBOLMAP_COMMANDS="$IPHONE_BCSYMBOLMAP_COMMANDS -debug-symbols $path "
echo $IPHONE_BCSYMBOLMAP_COMMANDS
done
Simulator-targeted archives don't generate BCSymbolMap files, so above is only needed for iphone target
echo "XCFramework: Creating XCFramework file"
Then we group them into one XCFramework file
xcodebuild -create-xcframework -framework "${BUILD_DIR}/archives/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework-iphoneos.xcarchive/Products/Library/Frameworks/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework" -debug-symbols "${BUILD_DIR}/archives/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework-iphoneos.xcarchive/dSYMs/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework.dSYM" $IPHONE_BCSYMBOLMAP_COMMANDS -framework "${BUILD_DIR}/archives/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework-iphonesimulator.xcarchive/Products/Library/Frameworks/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework" -debug-symbols "${BUILD_DIR}/archives/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework-iphonesimulator.xcarchive/dSYMs/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework.dSYM" -output "${UNIVERSAL_OUTPUTFOLDER}/${PROJECT_NAME}.xcframework"
For developer convenience, open the output folder
open "${UNIVERSAL_OUTPUTFOLDER}"
