Carthage support about matrix-ios-sdk

[radiodario]

👍

[mikecsh]

+1

[ara4n]

patches welcome for this, but right now none of the core team are using carthage and so all the effort is going into making the cocoapods work well.

[michaelnew]

One option, if you're like me and don't want cocoapods taking over your project, is to use Rome to build the frameworks and then include them yourself (so pretty much the same deal as Carthage).

I actually played around with trying to build with Carthage, but I'm not sure what to do with libbase58 since it's just a C library. Olm would also need to be buildable with Carthage.

[beltex]

Any updates on this?

[xinsight]

Hi @beltex. I've actually got the matrix sdk working with carthage. It was a bit of a hassle.

1. Not all the dependencies support carthage, so I had to fork them and add carthage support (OLMKit, libbase58). I will try to get the carthage changes merged upstream, but for now, they are just private forks.

2. The SDK has targets for mac and iOS, but they are specific to cocoapods. In order to not break cocoapod support, I added a new framework target. This new target is shared, which means carthage can see it.

3. There was a reference to MatrixKit which was causing problems, so I just commented that out.

It's still a work in progress, but have a look: https://github.com/xinsight/matrix-ios-sdk/tree/carthage

[ferologics]

@xinsight I'm considering using your fork in production.
Do you plan to maintain compatibility with upstream changes?
What other modifications have you made?

[xinsight]

Do you plan to maintain compatibility with upstream changes?

No.

What other modifications have you made?

Best to view my commits and let me know if you have specific questions. Basically, I had to add Carthage support to other dependencies. See: https://github.com/xinsight/matrix-ios-sdk/blob/carthage/Cartfile

git "[email protected]:xinsight/olm.git" "carthage"
github "xinsight/libbase58" "carthage"

Good luck!