Is it possible to reference other frameworks within the framework? about ios-framework HOT 4 CLOSED

I successfully accomplished this recently. The way I did this was in exactly the same way as described here: https://github.com/jverkoey/iOS-Framework/#developing-the-framework-as-a-dependent-project

The key is to make sure that in your public framework's target you:
A) add target dependencies to your private frameworks and
B) link with the private libraries

Both of these can be configured in the Build Phases for your public framework (after you drag-and-drop the private frameworks into your public framework's project). The exact steps are detailed in the above link.

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Were you able to get your framework created that way? I too would like to package up my framework which has a dependant framework in it. So far, following the steps, I can get it to build and create my public .framework, but if I add it to the app and build, I get an error saying it can't find the dependent header file.

I resolve this by adding the dependant .framework file to the app project folder as well, which removes that error. I would prefer to just have the one .framework file added to the project though.

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Yes, it worked for me. I don't recall having the problem you mention but the advice I can give is to just try to make sure you've classified your headers correctly (public vs. project vs. private) in both the framework and also in the dependent framework. In my case, I was not attempting to access any headers in the dependent framework directly from my app (I was only using the dependent framework to implement functionality that was exposed in the outer framework that was used by the app). So if you're trying to access interfaces in the dependent framework directly from your app, that's not something I've ever attempted in the past. Hope this helps!

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Thank you, that was indeed what the problem I was having turned out to be. I had my dependant framework referenced in the public header by app was using. Once I refactored things to remove that I was able to build the framework with dependant framework properly.

Thank you.

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