My Static Library

Hi, Friends

We will see how to create static library and how to use in another project.

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Create a static library

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•  Open the xcode and select the "Cocoa Touch Static Library" under "Framework & Library".

•  Give the name of your library like "MyStaticLibrary".

•  Now when you click on the "MyStaticLibrary" project and select the target, you will see the following screen.

•  Make sure all the settings should be according to the above image. (Don't worry it should take automatically).

•  Then create a New File with "NSObject" class. Name it "MyTestClass".

•  Now click on the header file which you want to use in another project. and in "Target Membership" , you will find our static library, please make it public as below image,

•  Now make the MyTestClass.h like below,

          #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

          @ interface MyTestClass : NSObject

          - (NSString *) GetStringFromMyStaticLibrary;

          @end

• And MyTestClass.m File like below,

            #import "MyTestClass.h"

           @implementation MyTestClass

           - (NSString *) GetStringFromMyStaticLibrary

          {

               return @"From My Static Library";

           }

           @end

Hey! It's done. Your static library is ready to use.

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Use your static library

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•  Create s simple view based project.

• Right click on the project name, click on "Add files to TestMyStaticLibrary" and add you static library project. see below,

Choose from the location where you store your static library.

• After adding the static library your workspace looks like below,

•  In the "TARGETS" add the static library to "Linked Binary With Libraries", and also add the Target dependencies like below,

•  In the User header search path "$(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)".

• Finally add the header file in the appDelegate.h

          #import "MyTestClass.h"

• Now build the project, you can see that your project build successful means we get success to use static library.

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You can download the source code from Here

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