How to create XCFramework?

1. First of all, enable “Build libraries for distribution” in build option .

2. Now archive the framework for your preffered supporting platform.

xcodebuild archive
-scheme MyFramework
-destination="iOS"
-destination="macOS"
SKIP_INSTALL=NO

We set the parameter skip install build setting to NO. This will install the framework in archive.

3. Now let’s extract all these framework from archives and pack together in a XCFramework. Run -create-xcframework command of xcodebuild to create XCFramework.

xcodebuild -create-xcframework
-framework <path>
-framework <path>
-output MyFramework.xcframework

The full shell script is here below which archives for iOS simulator and iOS device. After archiving the resulted XCframework folder will be open.

# set framework folder name
FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME="${PROJECT_NAME}_XCFramework"
# set framework name or read it from project by this variable
FRAMEWORK_NAME="${PROJECT_NAME}"
#xcframework path
FRAMEWORK_PATH="${HOME}/Desktop/${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}/${FRAMEWORK_NAME}.xcframework"
# set path for iOS simulator archive
SIMULATOR_ARCHIVE_PATH="${PROJECT_DIR}/${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}/simulator.xcarchive"
# set path for iOS device archive
IOS_DEVICE_ARCHIVE_PATH="${PROJECT_DIR}/${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}/iOS.xcarchive"
rm -rf "${HOME}/Desktop/${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}/${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}"
echo "Deleted ${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}"

mkdir "${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}"
echo "Created ${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}"
echo "Archiving ${FRAMEWORK_NAME}"
xcodebuild archive -scheme ${FRAMEWORK_NAME} -destination="iOS Simulator" -archivePath "${SIMULATOR_ARCHIVE_PATH}" -sdk iphonesimulator SKIP_INSTALL=NO BUILD_LIBRARIES_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES
xcodebuild archive -scheme ${FRAMEWORK_NAME} -destination="iOS" -archivePath "${IOS_DEVICE_ARCHIVE_PATH}" -sdk iphoneos SKIP_INSTALL=NO BUILD_LIBRARIES_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES
#Creating XCFramework
xcodebuild -create-xcframework -framework ${SIMULATOR_ARCHIVE_PATH}/Products/Library/Frameworks/${FRAMEWORK_NAME}.framework -framework ${IOS_DEVICE_ARCHIVE_PATH}/Products/Library/Frameworks/${FRAMEWORK_NAME}.framework -output "${FRAMEWORK_PATH}"
rm -rf "${SIMULATOR_ARCHIVE_PATH}"
rm -rf "${IOS_DEVICE_ARCHIVE_PATH}"
open "${HOME}/Desktop/${FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME}"

Thanks! :)