iPhone Static Library for iOS3 and iOS4

Question

Hi

I'm trying to build a universal binary from a static library that works for both ios4 and ios3. However, when I add the library built in ios4 and try to use it in ios3 it gives me these kinds of errors:

Undefined symbols: "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSMutableCharacterSet", referenced from: objc-class-ref-to-NSMutableCharacterSet in myLib.a(myLib.a-i386-master.o) "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSURLConnection", referenced from: objc-class-ref-to-NSURLConnection in myLib.a(myLib.a-i386-master.o) "_OBJC_CLASS_$_UIDevice", referenced from: objc-class-ref-to-UIDevice in myLib.a(myLib.a-i386-master.o) "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSString", referenced from:

I can't combine the library built in ios3 and ios4 with lipo because they use the same architecture. It looks like it's just not finding some basic files from UIKit. Do I just need to fix some linking issues?

Answer 1

Try weak-linking UIKit. In your build settings right now, it's probably tagged as "Required".

(Right-click target -> Get Info -> General tab -> Linked Libraries -> "Type" column for UIKit.framework)

Just make sure all code paths used by an iOS 3 build aren't using iOS 4.x-only stuff.