Add CocoaPods support about nearby

[bourdakos1]

CC @IgVelasco @eliabruni

[bourdakos1]

We do not have support for cocoapods and no one on the team is working on this yet. Happy to accept contributions if this is something you're interested in helping out with :)

[IgVelasco]

Yep that was it, I don't have much of a branch since I'm playing around with it trying to make it work. Now I have a different error but will try to work more on it. Thanks!

This is the podspec that I have for now:

Pod::Spec.new do |s|
  s.name         = 'NearbyCoreAdapter'
  s.version      = '1.0.0'
  s.summary      = 'A summary of your NearbyCoreAdapter package.'
  s.description  = 'A detailed description of your NearbyCoreAdapter package.'
  s.homepage     = 'https://github.com/yourusername/NearbyCoreAdapter'
  s.license      = { :type => 'MIT', :file => 'LICENSE' }
  s.author       = { 'Your Name' => '[email protected]' }
  s.source       = { :git => 'https://github.com/yourusername/NearbyCoreAdapter.git', :tag => s.version.to_s }
  s.swift_version = '5.0'
  s.platform     = :ios, '13.0'
  s.compiler_flags = '-std=c++11'
  s.pod_target_xcconfig = { 'CLANG_CXX_LANGUAGE_STANDARD' => 'c++11' }

  s.public_header_files = "connections/swift/NearbyCoreAdapter/Sources/Public/NearbyCoreAdapter/*.h"
  s.source_files = [
    "connections/swift/NearbyCoreAdapter/Sources/**/*.h",
    "connections/swift/NearbyCoreAdapter/Sources/**/*.mm",
    'third_party/**/*.mm',
  ]

  # Specify dependencies located in the third_party folder
  s.private_header_files = [
    "third_party/**/*.cpp",
    "third_party/**/*.hpp",
    "third_party/**/*.h"
  ]
  
  s.dependency 'GoogleToolboxForMac'
  s.dependency 'Protobuf', '3.24'

  # You can add other third-party dependencies here
  s.preserve_paths = "NearbyCoreAdapter.framework/*"
  s.xcconfig = {
    'FRAMEWORK_SEARCH_PATH[sdk=iphoneos*]' => '$(inherited) "$(PODS_ROOT)/NearbyCoreAdapter"',
    'OTHERCFLAGS[sdk=iphoneos*]' => '$(inherited) -iframework "$(PODS_ROOT)/NearbyCoreAdapter"',
    'OTHER_LDFLAGS[sdk=iphoneos*]' => '$(inherited) -framework NearbyCoreAdapter'
}
  # ...
end

[edgarclerigo]

What's the status of this? Do we have support for cocoapods already available?

[IgVelasco]

@bourdakos1 Hi I might try to get this running on my free time, no promises haha

I noticed the following dependencies:

  dependencies: [
    // Dependencies declare other packages that this package depends on.
    .package(
      name: "abseil",
      url: "https://github.com/bourdakos1/abseil-cpp-SwiftPM.git",
      branch: "cxx17"
    ),
    .package(
      name: "BoringSSL-GRPC",
      url: "https://github.com/firebase/boringssl-SwiftPM.git",
      "0.7.1"..<"0.8.0"
    ),
  ],

Is there a reason to continue using your fork? I think the official has the same code as the fork, it also looks like it might be trickier since I think I should add support to both of these dependencies, and maybe another one that I'm missing

[bourdakos1]

Haha no worries, any attempt is greatly appreciated, even if it doesn’t work out 😊

Nearby needs C++17 support, so my fork has a cxx17 branch that compiles abseil with C++17 instead of 14. Otherwise I get a bunch of linker errors (if I remember correctly). However, if you are able to get this building with the main abseil repo, that would be a huge win!

[IgVelasco]

@bourdakos1 I've been trying to make a pod of NearbyCoreAdapter, with no luck I want to see if I can build it before in order to debug it a little better, could you give me a hand on building the code, there's a BUILD file but not sure how to use it

Thanks for your support

[bourdakos1]

The BUILD file is for Bazel, which I’m not sure if that even works for NearbyCoreAdapter.

I normally use SPM to build. You should just be able to run “swift build” from the repo root. Hope that helps :) don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any other questions on the build process

[IgVelasco]

I think I hit a big wall right now.

Im not experience in iOS development in the least. But for what I gathered working around with the library is that it does not support simulator. And what I found is that CocoaPods does not have a way to disable said support, I might be wrong but im getting this kind of errors when building NearbyCoreAdapter usingo cocoapods:

 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator16.4.sdk/usr/include/c++/v1/stdexcept:204:62: error: unknown type name 'string'

[bourdakos1]

Hmm the library should support the simulator. (I’m able to run an app built with the SPM version on the simulator)

“Unknown type name ‘string’” sounds like a C++ header is being exposed to Swift. Do you have a branch I can take a look at?

[Droppix]

Does anyone have a solution for Cocoapods?
I'll take it...