Background
I have been struggling with this a bit and couldn’t find a documented solution online. So upon solving the problem I decided to write this blog post just to share my findings with the world and hopefully help someone else. Please note that I used prerelease versions of both CocoaPods and CocoaLumberjack.
Prerequisites
You need to have the release candidate of CocoaPods installed. I used version `0.36.0.rc.1`. To install the prerelease version type the following command into the terminal:
$ [sudo] gem install cocoapods --pre
You can check to see which version you have with the command:
pod --version
Installing CocoaLumberjack
First we need to create a `Podfile` in the projects root folder. That is usually the same folder where your `.xcodeproj` file is.
In the `Podfile` add the following text:
platform :ios, "8.1" pod "CocoaLumberjack", '2.0.0-rc2' use_frameworks!
Let’s break this down a bit. The first line tells us if we’re building an iOS or an OSX application and the system target version. In this case I’m targeting iOS 8.1.
The second line specifies that we want to install CocoaLumberjack and that we explicitly want the version `2.0.0-rc2`. You can find all available releases on CocoaLumberjacks github (https://github.com/CocoaLumberjack/CocoaLumberjack/releases).
The last line tells CocoaPods that we want to use dynamic frameworks instead of static libraries.
After saving the `Podfile` to your project root, run this command inside your project root:
$ pod install
When it is done you can close your Xcode project and open the newly created `.xcworkspace` file located in your project root, right next to your `.xcodeproj` file. Now this will not work entirely as expected.
Finishing the job
We need to help it out a bit by adding `CocoaLumberjack.swift` to the project that wasn’t added. So go to your project root and navigate into `CocoaLumberJackTest/Pods/CocoaLumberjack/Classes`. There is a file called `CocoaLumberjack.swift`, drag that file into the `Pods` project, I suggest into the `Pods/CocoaLumberjack/Default` group. When XCode gives you options for adding the files make sure to leave `Copy items if needed` unchecked. Also uncheck it from the `Pods` target and check it to the `Pods-CocoaLumberjack` target.
That’s it, it should work now!
Go ahead and `import CocoaLumberjack` into your own swift files and DDLog all you want.
import Foundation
import UIKit
import CocoaLumberJack
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
defaultDebugLevel = DDLogLevel.Info
}
override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
DDLogInfo("My view controller did appear!")
}
}
thanks for posting this! i tried this, but it isn’t working for me. since i’m also importing other libraries that are now swift-ready, so using the ‘use_frameworks!’ flag gives me all sorts of errors. is there a way to get this to work without the flag?
As far as I know there is no other easy way. You could try to alter Cocoa Lumberjack to get it to work without dynamic frameworks. Though I would probably try to fix the issues with the other pods when using the ‘use_frameworks!’ flag instead. Also, please note that both Cocoa Lumberjack and Cocoapods have been released in stable releases supporting Swift since this blog post was written.
If you’re working on a Swift-only project targeting iOS 8 and up, you might be interested in CleanroomLogger, a pure Swift logging subsystem:
https://github.com/emaloney/CleanroomLogger
This is really helpful. Thank you.
is there a way to incorporate debugPrint and DDLog ?