Prevent duplicate symbols when building static library with Cocoapods

Question

While I\'ve seen many questions dealing with Cocoapods and static libraries, most of them seem to assume you\'ll eventually have a single workspace with your static library

Answer 1

With reference from http://guides.cocoapods.org/syntax/podfile.html#post_install & http://pdx.esri.com/blog/2013/12/13/namespacing-dependencies/

I use the 'Manually Rename All of the Symbols' approach. I was experiencing the duplicate symbol _OBJC_METACLASS_$_PodsDummy_Pods and so i added and edited the post_install in the Podfile to something like that to avoid the duplicate symbol

post_install do |installer_representation|
    installer_representation.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
        target.build_configurations.each do |config|
            config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] = '$(inherited), PodsDummy_Pods=SomeOtherNamePodsDummy_Pods'
        end
    end
end