Exclude pod when porting to mac with catalyst

Question

Porting apps to mac is finally possible thanks to Catalyst, problem is, numerous pods don\'t support AppKit. Most common one would be Crashlytics / Firebase

Answer 1

Following @ajgryc answer, I was able to make a sleek solution:

In your podfile add

post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
        if target.name == "Pods-[Name of Project]"
            puts "Updating #{target.name} OTHER_LDFLAGS to OTHER_LDFLAGS[sdk=iphone*]"
            target.build_configurations.each do |config|
                xcconfig_path = config.base_configuration_reference.real_path
                xcconfig = File.read(xcconfig_path)
                new_xcconfig = xcconfig.sub('OTHER_LDFLAGS =', 'OTHER_LDFLAGS[sdk=iphone*] =')
                File.open(xcconfig_path, "w") { |file| file << new_xcconfig }
            end
        end
    end
end

Since Cocoapods 1.8.4

post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    if target.name == "Pods-[Name of Project]"
      puts "Updating #{target.name} to exclude Crashlytics/Fabric"
      target.build_configurations.each do |config|
        xcconfig_path = config.base_configuration_reference.real_path
        xcconfig = File.read(xcconfig_path)
        xcconfig.sub!('-framework "Crashlytics"', '')
        xcconfig.sub!('-framework "Fabric"', '')
        new_xcconfig = xcconfig + 'OTHER_LDFLAGS[sdk=iphone*] = -framework "Crashlytics" -framework "Fabric"'
        File.open(xcconfig_path, "w") { |file| file << new_xcconfig }
      end
    end
  end
end

And then in run script build phase for Fabric:

if [[$ARCHS != "x86_64"]]; then
  "${PODS_ROOT}/Fabric/run" [your usual key]
fi