Mantle iOS Framework Builder

About Mantle

Mantle is a great model framework for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.

Mantle makes it easy to write a simple model layer for your Cocoa or Cocoa Touch application.

You can learn more about Mantle here;

About Mantle iOS Framework Builder

Mantle iOS Framework Builder makes it super easy to use Mantle in your own project by compiling Mantle to a standard static iOS-Framework.

It's a shell script, and super easy to use. You can just download or clone this repository to your Mac, and edit a parameter in the Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder.sh file, then run Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder.sh, you'll get your Mantle.framework.

To use Mantle in your own project, just drag the Mantle.framework in to the Frameworks group in your project. Then #import <Mantle/Mantle.h> .

Usage

Download or clone this repository to your Mac.

Run the shell script Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder.sh

 cd Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder/
 
 # for example, the Mantle project is in ~/Developer/Mantle
 
 ./Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder.sh ~/Developer/Mantle/

When Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder.sh says "All Done!". You'll find a folder named Mantle-iOS-Framework on your Desktop. Open it, and you'll find the Mantle.framework.
Drag the Mantle.framework into the Frameworks group of your project. And #import <Mantle/Mantle.h> wherever you want to use Mantle.

Command Reference

Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder.sh can take 2 parameters.

	Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder.sh <mantle-project-directory> <output-directory>

mantle-project-directory: The absolute path to the directory which contains the Mantle.xcodeproj file. Default is ~/Developer/Open Source Libraries/Mantle/

output-directory: The final .framework file will be generated here. Default is ~/Desktop/Mantle-iOS-Framework/

You can change the default value by editing Mantle-iOS-Framework-Builder.sh

License