How to link third party libraries properly in iOS

Question

I'm new in iOS development, and met this library linking problem in last few days.

I was trying to use GMGridView in a project, but cannot make it working.

This project is shipped as static library, so I just drag the xcodeproj file in my project. Then I added libGMGridView.a in Link Binary With Libraries, GMGridView in Target Dependencies. I also added the path in Header Search　Paths.

However, Xcode still report .h file not found error when I tried to import GMGridView.h.

Could anyone give me a hand on this? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Had the same issue!!! Made it work!!!! soooooooo:

1. copy GMGridView folder from https://github.com/gmoledina/GMGridView to your project dir
2. in xcode right click on any file group and choose add files
3. find GMGridView folder in your folder dir and choose GMGridView.xcodeproj - (dont copy, create groups not folders, add targets)
4. go to your project targets - search - HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS add- GMGridView/**
5. select Building phases in settings - choose target dependencies and add GMGridView
6. select Building phases in settings - link binary libraries and add libGMGridView.a

import should be:

#import "GMGridView.h"
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>