Right now my project is using Azure Pipelines (based on a YAML file) to verify for the correct building and test passing of an Xcode project using Fastlane. Recently we had a new requirement to add a series of binary frameworks provided by an external vendor, sadly as of now the vendor is not providing us with a distribution method for their frameworks, instead we got a zip file with the frameworks inside. All developers already have these files locally.

Given the size of the frameworks and our internal standards we are not including these frameworks into our git repository, therefore one of our building stages fails as it is unable to find the binary frameworks to build the project. Thus our pipeline is constantly failing.

I was thinking on adding a new step into the pipeline to fetch the frameworks and add them to the directory so the build stage could find the frameworks and properly build the project but I'm honestly clueless about where to store these vendor binaries in Azure. I've been looking into Azure Artifacts and they seem like a promising option, but I'm not sure if I could accomplish my task with it and how could I use them for such case.

I would be very glad if someone could point me on the right direction, on how can I include these binary frameworks into my project so the pipeline could use them to build the project.

CodePudding user response：

According to your description, you can try to create a feed in your Azure DevOps organization and publish the zip file to the feed via the Universal Packages. And then you can use the Universal packages task to download the zip file.

For more information, you could refer to the publish universal packages.