Analytics 4.1.3 Error In CocoaPods Update

[rwgrier]

I am attempting to update from Analytics 4.1.2 to 4.1.3, and when I do a pod update, I get the following error in the console:

[!] The 'Pods-xxxxxxx' target has transitive dependencies that include statically linked binaries: (Analytics)

My Podfile has the use_frameworks! flag set, I do not have use_frameworks! :linkage => :static in my Podfile. I even tried use_frameworks! :linkage => :dynamic and that did not work. I receive the same error every time I attempt to update.

CocoaPods: 1.10.1
Xcode: 12.4 (12D4e)
Platform version (in the Podfile): platform :ios, '11.0'

Am I missing an obvious step here? Any guidance would be helpful.

[iujames]

+1 this update appears to have broken our ability to update the segment pod, with no clear workaround (also similar to #968 (comment))

[Noobish1]

I'm seeing this also with an internal Cocoapod. (I'm the commentor that @jellis-fox mentions above). #968 seems to be the change that caused this.

[wvabrinskas]

+1 to this.

I am also having this issue. Same environment. Setting use_frameworks! :linkage => :static is not a valid solution for us as this results in a runtime error where the app can't find another dependency.

[sergiymomot]

It happens if you also have any Segment integration pods integrated in addition to Segment SDK.

Reason: if an app links multiple dynamic libraries that include the same static library, the app will get undefined behavior, since there will be multiple copies of the same static library. Meaning that Segment will be statically linked to your to app and also be statically linked to dynamic Segment Integration pod (also linked to your app), thus duplication of symbols.

Workaround: link Segment integration pods manually by just copying source files into your project instead of using Cocoapods. Not ideal, of course, but hopefully Segment integration pods authors will update their repos to fix this problem.

[cf-lam]

@sergiymomot I tried including Segment directly into my dynamic framework by copying all the objective-c files from the Segment source code into my framework target. However, I couldn't build the framework because I kept running into an error about "include of non-modular header inside framework module" when I tried to use Segment in my Swift files within the same framework. Looked at https://stackoverflow.com/a/37072619/15261204. Basically I have a dynamic framework that I include in my app target as well as other dynamic frameworks, and I want to be able to use Analytics everywhere and am running into runtime issues where it says duplicate symbols are found. Those issues are due to Analytics now being a static library that I am including in multiple dynamic frameworks, which causes the Analytics code to be copied for each of those dynamic framework targets.

[cf-lam]

I was running into a runtime issue related to using CocoaPods to include Analytics in a dynamic framework that I then included as a framework dependency for other dynamic frameworks and an app target. I was getting runtime errors about duplicate symbols found.

Dependency looked like this:

Shared.framework <-- Feature.framework

Shared.framework <-- App target
Feature.framework <-- App target

Podfile looked like this:

shared_pods
    pod Analytics
    .... other pods
end

target 'Shared' do
    project 'Shared/Shared.xcodeproj'
    shared_pods
end

target 'Feature' do
    project 'Feature/Feature.xcodeproj'
    shared_pods
    .... other pods
end

target 'App' do
    shared_pods
    main_project_pods
    .... other pods
end

The fix was not to include pod analytics for all the other frameworks and targets, just Shared, so that Podfile looks like

shared_pods
    .... other pods
end

target 'Shared' do
    project 'Shared/Shared.xcodeproj'
    shared_pods
    pod Analytics
end

target 'Feature' do
    project 'Feature/Feature.xcodeproj'
    shared_pods
    .... other pods
end

target 'App' do
    shared_pods
    main_project_pods
    .... other pods
end

This fix only works because I use Segment code in my swift files only inside the Shared framework. I create wrapper classes around Segment in Shared, and my other framework and app targets reference these wrapper classes and not the Analytics library directly.

[bsneed]

Looking into this today, FYI.

[dhiren92]

+1 this update appears to have broken our ability to update the segment pod

[anuvednayakzc]

+1 this update appears to have broken our ability to update the segment pod

[bsneed]

Will close this because it's a duplicate. Please follow #991 for progress.