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How do you define the target for Specific Build Settings or Adding Frameworks?

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Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, nodejs
Domain
build-system, mobile, tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing pbxProject.prototype.updateBuildProperty and addFramework, including the pbxfile/addToFrameworkSearchPaths path, using the extTarget.uuid shown in the report. Done means build properties and the custom framework are applied to the added app-extension target rather than only the main project.

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Description

enhancement help wanted support

I've made an App Extension with the addTarget function but even though I have the target defined like so :

// (some global paths deliberately left out but they all point correctly)
    var extFiles = [
        'NotificationService.h',
        'NotificationService.m',
        `${extName}-Info.plist`,
        'appgroupconfig.json',
        'PushExtension.entitlements',
    ];

        const proj = xcode.project(projPath);
        proj.parseSync();

        // Copy in the extension files
        fs.mkdirSync(`${iosPath}${extName}`);
        extFiles.forEach(function (extFile) {
            let targetFile = `${iosPath}${extName}/${extFile}`;
            fs.createReadStream(`${sourceDir}${extFile}`)
                .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(targetFile));
        });
        
        // Add a target for the extension
        let extTarget = proj.addTarget(extName, 'app_extension');

I cannot seem to define any buildProperties for it specifically. For example, the function

pbxProject.prototype.updateBuildProperty = function(prop, value, build)

takes in the property key the value and the build but this will only update the main project and not any of the targets defined.

The target parameter in the addFramework function doesn't appear to work either. When digging into the pbxfile that it creates to addToFrameworkSearchPaths the target is not passed or accessed in the constructor. The following code doesn't add the Framework to the target:

var opt = {target: extTarget.uuid, embed: true, customFramework: true, sign: true}
proj.addFramework(`${custom_framework_path}`, opt);

Can somebody please point me to the right direction here? I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

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