Unable to build projects with CocoaPods - iOS Native bindings

[pubudulk]

I have an application that uses Cocoapods.
The project builds fine when we build the xcodeproject as a standalone project.
But once we connect it with the MAUI Binding project, and tries to build the Binding project, it fails with following error:

NewBinding.MaciOS.Binding failed with 1 error(s) (5.5s)
    /usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net9.0_18.2/18.2.9180/targets/Microsoft.MaciOS.Sdk.Xcode.targets(80,5): error : 
      xcodebuild exited with code 65:
      ** ARCHIVE FAILED **
      
      
      The following build commands failed:
        ScanDependencies /Users/pubuduwijeyaratne/Documents/Work/Maui.NativeLibraryInterop-main/template/macios/NewBinding.MaciOS.Binding/ob
      j/Debug/net9.0-ios/xcode/DerivedData/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ArchiveIntermediates/NewBinding/IntermediateBuildFilesPath/NewBindin
      g.build/Release-iphoneos/NewBinding.build/Objects-normal/arm64/NewBinding_vers.o /Users/pubuduwijeyaratne/Documents/Work/Maui.NativeL
      ibraryInterop-main/template/macios/NewBinding.MaciOS.Binding/obj/Debug/net9.0-ios/xcode/DerivedData/Build/Intermediates.noindex/Archi
      veIntermediates/NewBinding/IntermediateBuildFilesPath/NewBinding.build/Release-iphoneos/NewBinding.build/DerivedSources/NewBinding_ve
      rs.c normal arm64 c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler (in target 'NewBinding' from project 'NewBinding')
        Archiving project NewBinding with scheme NewBinding
      (2 failures)

Build failed with 1 error(s) in 5.9s
pubuduwijeyaratne@Pubudus-MacBook-Pro NewBinding.MaciOS.Binding % 

Appreciate any help on this.

Could this be because we are using the NewBinding.xcworkspace when building the native project manually(i.e from xcodebuild command). and Community toolkit might be using the NewBinding.xcodeproj file to build the binding.??

[HelloooJoe]

Hey, I ran into a similar issue when integrating a native library using MAUI Bindings.

In my case, the problem was caused by manually adding just the .a static library into the Framework directory, instead of including the entire .xcframework. This led to the same kind of ARCHIVE FAILED and ScanDependencies errors you're seeing.

I was working with Epson’s libepos2.xcframework to support Bluetooth printing via their ePOS SDK. Initially, I tried adding just the individual files like:

• libepos2.a
• ePOS2.h

But that setup didn’t work with MAUI’s build system. What eventually worked was:

1. Drag the entire libepos2.xcframework into the binding project in Xcode.
2. Do not embed it—just make sure it’s added to the build target.
3. Let the binding project reference it as a complete .xcframework, which includes both the architecture slices and headers.

Also, you're probably right—if you’re manually building from .xcworkspace but the MAUI binding project is trying to build the .xcodeproj, they could be resolving dependencies differently. CocoaPods modifies the workspace, so MAUI might miss the proper build context unless you’re including everything it needs (e.g., generated Pods-related config).

Let me know if that helps or if you want to compare project structures.

If that doesnt help and all you have is a static file, check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvstj_lktM&ab_channel=Mantoshkumar