Embed whisper.cpp in Xcode project

[nickasd]

I tried out SwiftWhisper, but since it hasn't been updated in over 2 years and still uses the old 1.2.0 version of whisper.cpp, it has some issues, like crashes happening at whisper_model_load when using some of the models (Turbo, or any q_8_x). (Because of the lack of recent updates for this project, I'm posting this both here and on whisper.cpp.) So I was wondering how to make it use the most recent whisper.cpp release.

I tried the following:

• Check out SwiftWhisper and open it in Xcode, but building it produces a compiler error No such module 'whisper_cpp'. The folder whisper.cpp, which, when adding SwiftWhisper as a package dependency to my main Xcode project, is populated with files, is in fact empty.
• Check out SwiftWhisper and add it as a project dependency to my main Xcode project, but again I get the compiler error No such module 'whisper_cpp'. Also for the life of me I cannot figure out where SwiftWhisper declares the link where to check out whisper.cpp @ 95b02d7 which can be seen in the root folder on GitHub. Is this some setting in GitHub that is not saved in the project files?
• Add the whisper.cpp .h and .cpp files to my main Xcode project like SwiftWhisper seems to do, but that doesn't seem to do anything. I would have assumed that a bridging header or something is necessary, but cannot see anything like that in SwiftWhisper.
• Download the XCFramework as mentioned in README.md, add it to my main Xcode project, and add the .swift files from SwiftWhisper (and also replacing import whisper_cpp with import whisper), and while the project compiles, at runtime macOS shows a warning about not being able to check whisper.framework for malware and gives me the option to move it to the bin. To open it nonetheless, I can open System Settings > Privacy & Security and at the bottom click Open Anyway. Running the project again then makes it crash at runtime. After some research I found that adding the following entitlement solves the issue, but it doesn't feel right to include it in a production app (and perhaps it's not even allowed on the App Store). When running the project again, I get again the macOS malware warning and have to allow it again.

<key>com.apple.security.cs.disable-library-validation</key>
<true/>

• Research if it's possible to add a CMake project as an Xcode subproject, but couldn't find anything that worked.

Does anyone know how to include whisper.cpp in a Swift Xcode project? Ideally without using XCFramework, so that it can be debugged and possibly optimized. Thanks in advance for any input!