Cocoapods dependency in pod spec not working

Question

I'm getting a syntax error with this spec file:

Pod::Spec.new do |s|  s.name         = "BSImageLoader"  s.version      = "0.1.3"  s.summary      = "The image loading framework for PicPoc"  s.homepage     = "https://bitbucket.org/boolalsofware/bsimageloader"  s.license      = 'MIT'  s.author       = { "Spencer Comerford" => "[email protected]" }  s.source       = { :git => "[email protected]:boolalsofware/bsimageloader.git", :tag => "0.1.3" }  s.source_files = 'Classes/*.{h,m}', 'Classes/PublicHeaders/*'  s.public_header_files = 'Classes/PublicHeaders/*.h'  s.dependency = 'BSTiledImageView', :git => '[email protected]:boolalsofware/bstiledimageview.git'  s.frameworks = 'QuartzCore', 'AssetsLibrary', 'UIKit'  s.requires_arc = true  end 

The problem is with the dependency which points at a bitbucket repo. I have gotten this to work with local dependencies, but for some reason with a git repo it isn't working. Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

I've faced the same issue and found that there is another way to solve this problem in old manner (thanks to @eliperkins).

Lets say you have a main project Downloader, which uses smaller project Player, which depends on micro project FFMpegPlayer. So what you want is to have a dependency in your Player.podspec, that would look like this:

s.dependency = 'FFMpegPlayer', :git => '...FFMpegPlayer.git' or  s.dependency = 'FFMpegPlayer', :local => '../FFMpegPlayer' s.dependency = 'FFMpegPlayer', :path => '../FFMpegPlayer' s.dependency = 'FFMpegPlayer', :podspec => '../FFMpegPlayer/FFMpegPlayer.podspec' 

But all that won't work with the latest version of Pods and it turns out :local was working as a side effect up to v0.17.1.

From now, you can specify clean dependency in Player.podspec:

s.dependency = 'FFMpegPlayer' (its ok if that spec does not exist in public) 

In the Podfile of Downloader (main project) you just have to specify FFMpegPlayer before Player pod:

pod 'FFMpegPlayer', :path => '../FFMpegPlayer' (micro project) pod 'Player', :path => '../Player' (small project which depends on FFMpegPlayer) 

So, basically, all your subpods are now listed in main Podfile, that guarantees no conflicts between pods versions.

Answer 2

The dependency directive of the podspec DSL supports only the name of the dependency and any optional version requirement. The :git option is not supported. You might use it in your Podfile or you might want to use a custom private repo in addition to the master repo.