This is a CLI to create a old style fat framework from a xcframework bundle if you don't need support for Apple Silicon.

Usage:

This command will create Foo.framework bundle with a x86_64 iOS Simulator slice and an arm64 iOS device slice.

./xcframework-to-fat path/to/Foo.xcframework path/to/output x86_64-apple-ios-simulator arm64-apple-ios

See ./xcframework-to-fat --help for more info.

Installation

brew install keith/formulae/xcframework-to-fat

Notes

• You cannot use this in the case you actually need multiple architectures that support different platforms, in that case you must use xcframeworks. This only exists for the case where you don't need that, and maybe your tooling doesn't support xcframeworks yet
• Currently this tool isn't smart about resources that differ for device or simulator, when possible it copies the resources from the framework targeting device builds without diffing them
• Since binaries are changed through this transformations, any code signatures they previously had are removed