iOS static libraries gone from 0.9.1/2?

Using Cinder
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Hi all.

I’m getting back onto an old iOS app of mine developed in the pre-0.9 era, and I made some progress updating everything to use Cinder 0.9.2 and C++14 (baby steps…). Now, I hit a pretty massive roadblock with linking – in fact, not just with my app but with pretty much anything for iOS under samples.

I used to link to those static libraries (libcinder.a) who lived in lib/ios/, which I understand are now supposed to have their own Release and Debug directories in there. However, I can’t seem to find any of that, and I can’t figure out how to retrieve them. Am I supposed to compile the library from the sources even if I downloaded the zip from the website?

Sorry, this must be obvious, but unfortunately I haven’t touched Cinder very much after the 0.9.0 release :frowning:

EDIT I tried a fullbuild.sh just in case and I ended up with what follows below. So it seems the macOS build went fine, but the iOS one did not. I should say, this is using Xcode 11.7.

Command line invocation:
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -project /Users/morpheu5/src/cinder_0.9.2_mac/proj/xcode/cinder.xcodeproj -target cinder_iphone -configuration Release -sdk iphoneos

Build settings from command line:
    SDKROOT = iphoneos13.7

note: Using new build system
note: Planning build
note: Constructing build description
error: AppKit is not available when building for iOS. (in target 'cinder_iphone' from project 'cinder')
error: Cocoa is not available when building for iOS. (in target 'cinder_iphone' from project 'cinder')

** BUILD FAILED **

Command line invocation:
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -project /Users/morpheu5/src/cinder_0.9.2_mac/proj/xcode/cinder.xcodeproj -target cinder_iphone -configuration Debug -sdk iphoneos

Build settings from command line:
    SDKROOT = iphoneos13.7

note: Using new build system
note: Planning build
note: Constructing build description
error: AppKit is not available when building for iOS. (in target 'cinder_iphone' from project 'cinder')
error: Cocoa is not available when building for iOS. (in target 'cinder_iphone' from project 'cinder')

** BUILD FAILED **

Command line invocation:
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -project /Users/morpheu5/src/cinder_0.9.2_mac/proj/xcode/cinder.xcodeproj -target cinder_iphone_sim -configuration Release -sdk iphonesimulator

Build settings from command line:
    SDKROOT = iphonesimulator13.7

note: Using new build system
note: Planning build
note: Constructing build description
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework CoreVideo.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework AVFoundation.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework CoreMedia.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework CoreVideo.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework AVFoundation.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework CoreMedia.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
error: AppKit is not available when building for iOS Simulator. (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
error: Cocoa is not available when building for iOS Simulator. (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
error: QTKit is not available when building for iOS Simulator. (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')

** BUILD FAILED **

Command line invocation:
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -project /Users/morpheu5/src/cinder_0.9.2_mac/proj/xcode/cinder.xcodeproj -target cinder_iphone_sim -configuration Debug -sdk iphonesimulator

Build settings from command line:
    SDKROOT = iphonesimulator13.7

note: Using new build system
note: Planning build
note: Constructing build description
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework CoreVideo.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework AVFoundation.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework CoreMedia.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework CoreVideo.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework AVFoundation.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
warning: Product libcinder.a cannot weak-link framework CoreMedia.framework (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
error: AppKit is not available when building for iOS Simulator. (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
error: Cocoa is not available when building for iOS Simulator. (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')
error: QTKit is not available when building for iOS Simulator. (in target 'cinder_iphone_sim' from project 'cinder')

** BUILD FAILED **
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Sort-of answering my own question, this PR seems to do the trick for me.