Bazel-building an iOS app containing 330+ frameworks

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Allegro moves from 30 to 330+ frameworks inside a monorepo and uses a custom CLI bridge plus XcodeGen, Swift Argument Parser, Bazel and xcodebuild to produce and cache precompiled binaries for mixed Swift/Objective‑C frameworks. The pipeline generates projects from manifests, builds modules with Bazel invoking xcodebuild, copies frameworks into DerivedData for normal Xcode linking, and reports about a ~10s overhead for copying while otherwise achieving faster, cacheable builds without a standard ruleset.

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1. 0:00Project context and challenges
2. 2:18Monorepo cleanup strategy
3. 2:44Building the CLI bridge
4. 6:18Implementing build rules
5. 9:01Build workflow and evaluation