Using 3rd party, native SDK in nativescript project - Framework does not appear to be a dynamic framework

Question

I am developing a Nativescript + Angular shared web&mobile application. I am using most recent versions of frameworks (TNS 6 and Angular 8). I need to use a SDK which is available natively for iOS - https://github.com/dotpay/Mobile-SDK-iOS . I tried to wrap it as a plugin, and tried to do this in two ways:

1. Creating plugin with Podfile - in this case, when I try to access DotPay object in my final project, I add

declare var DotPay;

at the top of file, but I am getting and error

Can't find variable: DotPay

when I run the code.

2. Adding the whole library in platforms/ios/ directory. In this case, I cannot even build the project, because I am getting this error:

The bundle at $PROJECT_DIR/node_modules/nativescript-dotpay/platforms/ios/DotPaySDK.framework does not appear to be a dynamic framework.

I tried to add module.modulemap file in several locations (/platforms/ios, /platforms/ios/DotPaySDK.framework, /platforms/ios/DotPaySDK.framework/Modules) but it did not change anything.

Also, after calling this command

TNS_TYPESCRIPT_DECLARATIONS_PATH="$(pwd)/typings" tns build ios

no definition file for this SDK is generated (in both cases).

The structure of SDK is:

I've also run the second option with

tns build ios --log trace

And I've found out that it fails at ios-project-service.js, lines 499-502

      const packageType = plistJson["CFBundlePackageType"];
        if (packageType !== "FMWK") {
            this.$errors.failWithoutHelp("The bundle at %s does not appear to be a dynamic framework.", libraryPath);
        }

Because of the fact, that CFBundlePackageType key of SDK Info.plist is BNDL instead of FMWK.

Answer 1

At the end, I received help on ios-runtime repository of Nativescript. Here is the issue: https://github.com/NativeScript/ios-runtime/issues/1187