Undefined symbols for architecture arm64

[nullpotent]

Description

I have a basic MAUI (.net 8) project created with a Rider template that uses a binding library based on a template from Maui.NativeLibraryInterop. I'm trying to build a Release config build (IPA for distribution).

Binding lib it depends on is a wrapper Xcode project around a native .framework (to minimize the API surface when creating api definitions). It itself depends on an .xcframework, although the original authors of the framework instructed me simulator builds will not work (and I disabled ios simulator support in Xcode project with SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS = iphoneos;). Building the Xcode project with Xcode 15.3, 15.4 and 16 works just fine, no errors.

But, when trying to build a release MAUI iOS build I get the following error: Undefined symbols for architecture arm64
What's strange is that the builds were fine up until maybe a month ago, it stopped working when I updated the dotnet version at some point(still kept the same maui workload 8.0.72)

Any clues what might be going on here?

Thanks in advance, Alex

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the solution from the reproduction repository
2. Switch to Release config build and try building the project
3. Observe the bug

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/nullpotent/MauiAppIosBindingIssue

Environment

• OS: MacOS Sequoia 15.0, Xcode 15.3
• .NET MAUI: 8.0.403 (maui workload 8.0.72)
• Target platforms: ios-arm64

Tried Xcode 15.4 as well, tried maui workload 8.0.82 and 8.0.3