Why is there no Embed section in Xcode's Frameworks & Libraries section

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Created Apr ’25

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If I create an Xcode (version doesn't matter, 16.N )project of type framework then install some dependencies using SPM. Then within the Frameworks and Libraries section, the Embed part is empty. This doesn't happen if the project type is app rather than framework.

If I want to set this to embed or not embed then how can this be done if its not even visible, for that matter how can I tell what it is set to even? Screenshot 2025-04-28 at 8.37.39 AM.png

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Etresoft OP

Apr ’25

Those are archives, aka static libraries, not frameworks. The only possible option is to embed them into the code itself.

But even if they were frameworks, you can't embed one framework into another. That would be an umbrella framework which Apple discourages and/or disallows.

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