[BUG] CocoaPods 1.10.0 and Pod distributing XCFramework is breaking the Mac Catalyst build

[rowanmulder]

Recently Google updated their Google Mobile Ads SDK (as well as the Google User Messaging SDK in the previous release), to move from a .framework to a .xcframework.

Unfortunately while including the libraries in the pod.file as defined in the README for the script, the build (exclusion) for Mac Catalyst fails.

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pod.file:
pod 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK', '~> 7.68.0' (or without version, note requires Firebase 7 if that's also in use)

def catalyst_unsupported_pods
  [
    "Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK", ...
  ]
end

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Build errors
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/.../Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/something.com-blqqpxgyaaldrudoafizlmebhztt/Build/Products/Debug (test server)-maccatalyst/XCFrameworkIntermediates/GoogleMobileAds'

ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/.../Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/something.com-blqqpxgyaaldrudoafizlmebhztt/Build/Products/Debug (test server)-maccatalyst/XCFrameworkIntermediates/UserMessagingPlatform'
ld: framework not found GoogleMobileAds

Script errors
warning: [CP] Unable to find matching .xcframework slice in '/Users/.../Development/ios-app/Pods/GoogleUserMessagingPlatform/Frameworks/Release/UserMessagingPlatform.xcframework UserMessagingPlatform framework ios-armv7_arm64_arm64e ios-i386_x86_64-simulator' for the current build architectures (x86_64).

warning: [CP] Unable to find matching .xcframework slice in '/Users/rmulder/Development/ios-app/Pods/Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK/Frameworks/GoogleMobileAdsFramework-Current/GoogleMobileAds.xcframework GoogleMobileAds framework ios-armv7_arm64 ios-i386_x86_64-simulator' for the current build architectures (x86_64).

[fermoya]

Hey hi @rowanmulder , thanks for raising this, I'll give it a look shortly

[fermoya]

@rowanmulder are you using the last version of the script? I have this Podfile:

target 'CollectionViewLayoutExample' do
  use_frameworks!

  pod "Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK"
end

def catalyst_unsupported_pods
  [
    "Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK"
  ]
end

with the Manifest.lock:

PODS:
  - Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK (7.68.0):
...

And it seems to work, Build and Archive.

Could you please double check with the most updated remove_ios_only_frameworks.rb and if it still fails, could you copy paste your Podfile?

[rowanmulder]

Once I changed it to 7.64.0, it will fail on Google User Messaging Platform (a dependency from Google Mobile Ads), and if I change it to 7.68.0 both Google Mobile Ads and User Messaging Platform give the same errors.

I'm using CocoaPods 1.10 by the way, could that be related, I believe it also had some changes related to .xcframeworks integration?

(double checked the ruby, to be the latest from the repo)

[fermoya]

@rowanmulder I just checked with cocoapods 1.10.0 and that might seem to be the issue. With 1.9.0 it seems to work.

I'll give it a look, thanks

[fermoya]

@rowanmulder I think I got it, will you give it a look please? Use the last version, I just committed

[rowanmulder]

Updated the script, and I am able to build the latest releases of CocoaPods (1.10), Google Mobile Ads (7.68.0) and Firebase (7.0). Excellent, thanks!

[fermoya]

Cheers! It was a simple change anyways.

Thanks a million for noticing and opening this issue, it was very helpful