How to use Firebase SDK as a Pod dependency?

Question

Now that the iOS Firebase SDK is open-source, I'd like to build a pod using Firebase as a dependency. To do so, I create a new pod template with the following.

My issue is that I can import FirebaseDev from the example project, but I cannot from my development pod. I knew this was an issue before the SDK got open-source, but I hope to be able to fix this issue now but I need help identifying where the problem lies. Anyone can help on this?

.podspec:

s.dependency 'FirebaseDev'
s.dependency 'FirebaseDev/Core'
s.dependency 'FirebaseDev/Auth'
s.dependency 'FirebaseDev/Database'

Example/Podfile:

pod 'FirebaseDev', :git => 'https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk'
pod 'FirebaseDev/Core', :git => 'https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk'
pod 'FirebaseDev/Auth', :git => 'https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk'
pod 'FirebaseDev/Database', :git => 'https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk'

Answer 1

A little late but, in your .podspec add s.static_framework = true. That'll let you use Firebase as a pod dependency!

Answer 2

Following some advice on the linked GitHub issue, I created a fork of firebase-ios-sdk in which I only removed the modulemap file and I was finally able to create a Pod using Firebase as a dependency! Youhou!!!

I need to find out if this has some nasty side-effects now.

Update: the corresponding pull request has been merged.