Xcodebuild -create-xcframework not working in Xcode 15.0

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Hello! Not really a Swift question, but I thought someone here may have an answer. I have found a weird behavior change when running xcodebuild -create-xcframework in Xcode 15 compared to running it in Xcode 14.3.1. If I run the command like this in Xcode 15:

xcodebuild 
-create-xcframework 
-framework "pathToFrameworkInATemporaryDirectory"
-debug-symbols "pathToDebugSymbols" 
-output "Something.xcframework"

I get this error:

error: cannot compute path of binary 'Path(str: "temporaryPathToTheUnixExecutableFile")' relative to that of 'temporaryPathToTheFramework'

But if I trace that path to the unix executable file, it is present.

If I run that same command in Xcode 14.3.1, it works fine.

I can create the xcframework successfully in Xcode 15 if I don't copy the framework to a temporary directory before calling xcodebuild -create-xcframework and I use that original path.

Why is this problem happening now in Xcode 15?

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

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We were running into the same issue and found that this seems to happen only if there are symlinks in the paths given to -create-xcframework.

We were able to work around this by resolving the symlinks with readlink like this:

xcodebuild 
-create-xcframework 
-framework $(readlink -f "pathToFrameworkInATemporaryDirectory")
-debug-symbols $(readlink -f "pathToDebugSymbols")
-output $(readlink -f "Something.xcframework")
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We were using the following build command with xcode 14.3:

xcodebuild -create-xcframework \
    -framework $PROJECT_DIR/../devices/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ArchiveIntermediates/myFramework/BuildProductsPath/Release-iphoneos/myFramework.framework \
   -framework $PROJECT_DIR/../simulators/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ArchiveIntermediates/myFramework/BuildProductsPath/Release-iphonesimulator/myFramework.framework \
  -output $PROJECT_DIR/../output/myFramework.xcframework

And we are experiencing the same issue with xCode 15. How can we solve this?

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We resolved it by using the canonical path that points to our temporary directory and that worked.

More information about that here.

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Xcode 15.3 RC Release Notes mention:

Fixed a bug where creating an xcframework from a framework or library located at a path containing a symlink (such as /var which is a symlink to /private/var) would fail. (115786062) (FB13191683)

A fix? Sounds exactly like this, I presume… :raised_hands:

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Yeah, I saw that a few weeks ago with the beta! That is exactly it. Thanks for posting that here.