Carthage will dive into and build a dependency’s child dependencies recursively before building it. Build the product for each of the shared/public schemes in the Xcode project of each repository. Build: Dive into our local repositories we just cloned.Recursively clone more repositories if the dependency has its own Cartfile to indicate its dependencies too, until all required repositories for the dependency to work are cloned locally. Checkout: Clone the GitHub repository of the resolved version, decided by Cartfile.resolved, into our local path.For every dependency in Cartfile.resolved, the building process is bootstrapped in two steps: The resolved version will be saved in another text file - Cartfile.resolved, which is the most important file for later building process. Before building the frameworks, Carthage needs to resolve their exact versions compatible to the constraints in our Cartfile. The dependencies of our app, along with our required version constraints, are listed in Cartfile, a special text file for Carthage to read. We need to link them manually to our app on our own. All things other than building relies on ourselves. Carthage, by design, is responsible only for building them. Share our prebuilt frameworks with other developersĬarthage is a tool that facilitates the building of dependencies/frameworks.A difficult migration - to apply patches during bootstrapping.A simple migration - to bootstrap dependencies.In this article, I’ll cover what I learned during the migration, hoping that other developers can benefit.
#Cocoa frameworks in appcode trial
After 2 months of trial and errors, we successfully reduced the clean build time to about 5 minutes, saving 20% of our precious time. One solution we started with is to migrate some of the frameworks from CocoaPods to Carthage, a recently popular tool to prebuild dependencies. We began to explore some way to reduce the build time of our app. This was really a bother when we switch between git branches, causing Xcode to perform almost clean build. It recently took more and more time to build my company’s app in about lengthy 7 minutes or even more. I guess the article is still worth your time reading it, and hopefully you’ll gain benefits :) The following article was written when I still believed Carthage could be one of my options to maintain modules.
But I regard this article as still valuable as it was my journey to explore how Xcode deals with modules.
#Cocoa frameworks in appcode code
It’d be better to go back to CocoaPods or move forward to SPM as they are source code oriented and so much less prone to such changes. Carthage is too vulnerable to Xcode/Swift updates and it becomes a disaster every time we failed to compile the app just because we upgraded Xcode or even libraries. Revision: After suffering, I don’t think right now that it is a good idea to use Carthage. How Carthage Works: Migrate from CocoaPods to Carthage to Save Xcode Clean Build Time (Legacy)
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