Carthage

Carthage is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C applications. Carthage handles the installation of external libraries your application depends on during a build.

Carthage is widely used among iOS developers for dependency management, and it's very easy to include it in your iOS projects with Appcircle.

Prerequisites

Appcircle will look for a Cartfile file in your repository and use it to install the dependencies. For this reason, it should be used after the Git Clone step.

Prerequisite Workflow Step	Description
Git Clone	This step clones your git repo on the runner where the build process will take place so that the necessary workflow operations can be performed.

Input Variables

You can find all the parameters required for this step in the table below, with their descriptions in detail.

Variable Name	Description	Status
`$AC_CARTHAGE_COMMAND`	Specifies the Carthage command to run. Defaults to `bootstrap`. Possible values: `bootstrap`, `update`	Required
`$AC_REPOSITORY_DIR`	Specifies the cloned repository directory. This path will be generated after Git Clone.	Optional
`$AC_CARTFILE_PATH`	Specifies the path where the Cartfile resides. Defaults to the repository directory. DO NOT include Cartfile, this is only the path. This value will be appended to `AC_REPOSITORY_DIR`. Example: `./` or `./subpath-to-cartfile/`	Optional
`$AC_CARTHAGE_FLAGS`	Specifies additional flags after the Carthage command. The default value is empty. For Xcode 12 and above, make sure to include `--use-xcframeworks` here. To shorten the build time, make sure to specify the platform: `--platform iOS`. Example usage: `--platform iOS --use-xcframeworks`	Optional