Use prebuilt XCFramework distribution of MLX

[Lakr233]

Hello,

Thank you for this valuable repository that consolidates the necessary resources. I am planning to switch to it.

Currently, when I'm building my AI app, it takes 75% of the time building MLX-related codes, which takes really long. I'm wondering if it is possible to build a variant that packs all the backend (MLX, llama.cpp, ...) into a single .xcframework that is static for linking. This would save many hours and computing time on Xcode Cloud.

And if you accept PR, I'd like to make one.

:)

[mattt]

@Lakr233 Glad to hear that you found this to be useful!

I agree that a binary XCFramework dependency for MLX would be a big improvement. I've been tracking this issue, which recently got this PR, which should help get us there.

[mattt]

I just opened up ml-explore/mlx-swift#351 to add release automation so that future releases of mlx-swift have XCFramework assets that we can target directly.