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Is it possible to find out what packages a single Xcode target depends on?

For context, I'm working on a project that has several different targets in its Xcode project.
These targets sometimes have different Swift packages as their dependencies:

  • Target 1: Depends on Package A
  • Target 2: Depends on Package B

The generated Package.resolved file will contain both Package A and Package B.

Now, we're trying to create a script (or use LicensePlist) to automatically generate a list of open source licenses.

  • When we base the script on Package.resolved, there are too many packages listed
  • When we base the script on the Xcode project, there are too few packages listed (Xcode only lists direct dependencies, but not dependencies' dependencies)
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Swift Package Manager can generate dependency graphs (which I use in SourceDocs like this)

The command is

swift package show-dependencies

However, since Xcode does not have a Package.swift file, I haven't found a way to do this from the command line.

My recommendation would be to create a "fake" package with the same (empty) targets and dependencies, and then run the command.

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