ios - what's the purpose of "--no-use-binaries" in carthage

Question

As titled, what's the purpose of "--no-use-binaries" in carthage command line? if missing this, what could happen and what's the benefit to have this?

Answer 1

Sometimes the prebuilt frameworks are corrupted in the dependencies’ project, so you need to build them?locally.

Also, those prebuilt frameworks don’t support step-by-step debugging, so unless you build them locally, you won’t be able to use this feature with your?dependencies.

Using --no-use-binaries compiles the projects locally, using your?compiler.

Executing the update command might occasionally produce an error when the Swift language updates to a newer version while the dependency is built for an older version of Swift (even if it’s still?compatible). You can solve such scenarios by using this?flag.

One disadvantage is that it takes longer to compile the project with the --no-use-binaries flag. Without the flag, you’re requesting the prebuilt framework if it’s available. For more information you can see this Carthage issue on?GitHub.

Hope I cleared up your doubts.