[Solved] iOS Dependency manager in Cocoa Touch Framework

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Open to edit and suggestions! To be continued when Swift Package Manager is released for iOS

Also, I want to apologise if something is not quite right.

ANSWER:

After a while trying different ways and methods and with drekka answer, I have figured out how to use Carthage as a dependency manager for my cocoa touch framework.

My Framework has all the Carthage files and folders, includes the Frameworks but it doesn’t have the run script.

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Because my framework contains public variables that depends on the frameworks imported, when I use them in App project Xcode can find them.

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So in my App target “TheApp – General – Linked frameworks and libraries” i drag an drop the carthage framework reference:

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And, indeed, the location is added into “TheApp – Build settings – Search path – Framework search path”

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At this point the app compiles an runs in a simulator but crashes when runs in a real device as it is shown in the question. For solving this issue I add the Carthage scrips in “TheApp – Build phases”

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And job done!

I was expecting an easier integration like the one you get with gradle in android but, by now, I think this is the best approach.

solved iOS Dependency manager in Cocoa Touch Framework