Turicreate: Wrapping dylib into a framework

[Davvie]

Unfortunately wrapping libRecommender.dylib into a framework doesn't seem to help with the App Store delivery error:

Does anyone else experience this issue?

[TobyRoseman]

This is related to #2050.

@Davvie - Are you following the directions from our User Guide? Specifically, are you following the instructions from the section which begins "If your project will be submitted to the App Store"?

[Davvie]

@TobyRoseman Yes, I am. I guess I've tried all possible combinations with and without the libAudioPreprocessing.dylib in my framework.
Could you kindly provide an empty sample project with dylibs hooked up the right way? It would help a lot to find the problem in my configuration.

[syoutsey]

@Davvie Can you share your project so we can take a look? Also, are you using the libRecommender, the libAudioPreprocessing, or both? If both, is there a chance that you've correctly configured one framework but not the other?

[Davvie]

@syoutsey I'm only using libRecommender so I didn't include libAudioPreprocessing in my first attempts. Should I include it anyway?

Here is an empty project I created with the project configuration similar to mine: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0hl19wnm15g668q/RecommenderSample.zip?dl=0
If you could take a look at it I'd be really grateful

[FamilGadzhiev]

@Davvie Can you share your project so we can take a look? Also, are you using the libRecommender, the libAudioPreprocessing, or both? If both, is there a chance that you've correctly configured one framework but not the other?

Hi! I'm having the same issue, can't submit my app to the App Store :(
@davvie checked out your link, I have the same setup
could u help? @syoutsey

[FamilGadzhiev]

After many attempts I gave up trying to wrap the dylib into a framework and tried to include source files from this folder manually.

Still no success though, now the Suggestions class can not be found. Am I missing something? :(

[Davvie]

Update: I finally managed to submit a build!
The trick was selecting "Objective-C" as a language when creating the framework target

[Davvie]

Hi, I guess I haven't solved the issue even though the submission passed successfully. The app crashes on launch because the library can't be found in the configuration I made in the end.

I emailed the developer technical support, and they said that "there is no supported way to take a pre-build .dylib file and package it as a framework".

@TobyRoseman @syoutsey Is there any other way I can import the recommender library other than the dylib? In case of the sound classifier I can just drag and drop the .h and .m files from the 'src/deployment' folder.

[TobyRoseman]

We are exploring another option in #3023.

[Davvie]

Sounds great, thank you! Looking forward to it

[davidesoldan]

I emailed the developer technical support, and they said that "there is no supported way to take a pre-build .dylib file and package it as a framework".

Hi @Davvie
sorry for the stupid question. But does it mean that is not possible to use a .dylib inside an iOS application in any way? I mean, for iOS apps that goes to the App Store / TestFlight?

From the section "Embedded .dylib Files" of the documentation here
Apple Documentation

I know that I cannot use directly a .dylib file into an app, but I have to wrap it into a target framework.
But the developer support tells you that there is no supported way to do it.
I'm a little confused
Thank you