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Asked: 2026-05-21T12:50:29+00:00

My client is providing me with two precompiled libraries, blah-device.a and blah-simulator.a. How do

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My client is providing me with two precompiled libraries, blah-device.a and blah-simulator.a. How do I tell xcode to use blah-device.a in Device compilation mode and simulator in Simulator compilation mode?

My client gives me these instructions

  1. Open the Targets group (in the Groups & Files panel), right-click the
    project icon, then select Add >
    Existing Frameworks.
  2. In the Linked Libraries section, click the Add Libraries icon (+) icon,
    then click Add Other.
  3. Select either blah-device.a (for developing directly on the iPhone
    device) or blah-simulator.a (for
    developing on the iPhone Simulator),
    then click Add.

I already copied the header file in there, however these instructions don’t make building easy with different profiles.

How do I get Xcode to link blah-device.a when building with the DEVICE profiles and blah-simulator.a when building with the SIMULATOR profiles?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is an easier way to do that. You can duplicate the “Library Search Paths” under one target and set a different architecture for each one. You can then set a different path for simulator and devices.

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