[aerogear-dev] Creation of static library and framework for aerogear-push-ios-registration

[Corinne Krych]

Hello Andrea,

I’ve tested the static build and use it in push demo [1] with a new certificate and the UPS openshift instance (quickstarts created by Sebi). I’ve transformed xcodeproject not to link to any cocopods artifacts. Then, I’ve used Method 1 described in raywenderlich blog [2] to link to the built static lib.

It works well out of the box. I haven’t tested it on 64bits device yet.

+1 on using fwk as you said it simplifies the end user experience. But as jverkoeyen stated it its the readme [3] instruction "Building a static iOS framework is a pain…”, well, it requires more work ;)

In the meantime, we can use your static lib with headers file, are we going to store the fat lib in the demo repo?

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Corinne
[1] https://github.com/corinnekrych/aerogear-push-ios-demo/compare/static.lib?expand=1
[2] http://www.raywenderlich.com/41377/creating-a-static-library-in-ios-tutorial
[3] https://github.com/jverkoey/iOS-Framework/blob/master/README.mdown


On 07 Apr 2014, at 11:37, Erik Jan de Wit <edewit at redhat.com> wrote:

> This error is because of the CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR try TARGET_BUILD_DIR instead
> On 7 Apr,2014, at 11:20 , Erik Jan de Wit <edewit at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> I’ve tried to build with this script but it doesn’t work. I was also in the progress of creating a script that would do exactly the same to release the push plugin and always include the latest aerogear-push-ios-registation release as a binary
>> 
>> This is the error I get:
>> 
>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/libtool: -dynamic not specified the following flags are invalid: -ObjC 
>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lPods
>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/libtool: file: -lPods is not an object file (not allowed in a library)
>> Command /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/libtool failed with exit code 1
>> 
>> 
>> On 7 Apr,2014, at 10:53 , Andrea Vibelli <avibelli at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all, 
>>> for those who are not able or willing to use Cocoapods, it would be nice to distribute a static binary library of aerogear-push-ios-registration.
>>> In order to support multiple platforms without the need to create multiple configurations or build products, I think that the best way would be to create a universal binary (aka fat library) that contains the object code for both architectures (device + simulator) and the public headers files.
>>> 
>>> Going further, from the universal library it could be possible to create a framework, that would bring everything together into one package (a directory with a known structure). Packaging a library as a framework simplifies things for developers because it not only provides a binary to link against but it includes all of the necessary header files to reference as well.
>>> 
>>> I have tried to create a script that builds a universal static library first and then a framework (putting together some links [1],[2],[3],[4]), is anybody willing to help to check it and test the built bits inside the cordova-push-plugin?
>>> 
>>> You can find the script here: https://github.com/vibe13/aerogear-push-ios-registration/blob/master/universal_lib-framework_build.sh
>>> 
>>> The script should be placed inside the project root and run: ./universal_lib-framework_build.sh
>>> 
>>> Thank you 
>>> Andrea
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.meonbinary.com/2013/07/creating-universal-ios-framework
>>> [2] http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/12/13/building-a-universal-framework-for-ios/
>>> [3] https://github.com/jverkoey/iOS-Framework
>>> [4] http://www.cocoanetics.com/2010/04/making-your-own-iphone-frameworks/
>>> 
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