Cannot get self-hosted ios native plugin to work with simulator build

Solar2D Native builds
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I have an app that uses a custom plugin. I can get it to build via XCode, but it would be nice if I could build from the simulator instead now that builds are offline. I am trying to follow the instructions from this page

I build the plugin in XCode and find the resulting libplugin_asreader.a at

/Users/laura/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HarvestApp-fihlwxewossfywghdfjjztsyvtax/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libplugin_asreader.a

I copy the libplugin_asreader.a file and create a file called manifest.lua in a new empty directory

manifest.lua contains

local metadata =
{
plugin =
{
format = ‘staticLibrary’,

        -- This is the name without the 'lib' prefix.
        -- In this case, the static library is called: libSTATIC_LIB_NAME.a
        staticLibs = { 'plugin_asreader' }, 

        frameworks = { },
        frameworksOptional = {},
        delegates = {  }
    },
}
return metadata

I create a .tgz file called data.tgz with the following command

tar -cvzf data.tgz libplugin_asreader.a metadata.lua

I copy data.tgz into the directory
/Users/laura/Solar2DPlugins/com.corvidapps/plugin.asreader/iphone/data.tgz

My build.settings plugins section looks like the following:

plugins =
  {
      ['plugin.qrscanner'] = spiralcodestudio_plugin('qrscanner'),
      ["plugin.airprint"] =
      {
          publisherId = "tech.scotth",
          supportedPlatforms =
          {
              iphone =
              {
                  url="https://github.com/solar2d/tech.scotth-plugin.airprint/releases/download/v1/2014.2264-iphone.tgz"
              },
          },
      },
      ["plugin.bit"] =
      {
          publisherId = "com.coronalabs",
          supportedPlatforms =
          {
              iphone =
              {
                  url="https://github.com/coronalabs/com.coronalabs-plugin.bit/releases/download/v3/2013.2584-iphone.tgz"
              },
          },
      },
      ["plugin.asreader"] =
      {
          publisherId = "com.corvidapps",
      }
  },

When I build (using Solar2d Daily build 3628) to an iPhone 6 device the console shows the following:

Dec 06 13:43:28.372 Using additional build settings from: build.settings

Dec 06 13:43:28.384 Building: Copying app resources

Dec 06 13:43:28.400 Building: Unpacking build with plugins

Dec 06 13:43:28.736 Building: Adding plugins

Dec 06 13:43:28.796 Analyzing plugins…

Dec 06 13:43:28.797 Found native plugin: /Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.bit
Found native plugin:
/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.airprint

Dec 06 13:43:28.797 Found native plugin: /Users/lauraDesktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.qrscanner
Done.

Analyzing Lua plugins…
Examining plugin: plugin.bit
Examining plugin: plugin.airprint
Examining plugin: plugin.asreader
Examining plugin: plugin.qrscanner
Done.

Compiling Slices…
Compiling architecture: armv7

Dec 06 13:43:29.111 cd “/var/folders/f2/ylxh1gwn2ns2rgdsn6c90_8h0000gn/T/CLtmpjV5yuQ/armv7”;unset LIBRARY_PATH; export IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=8; export PATH="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin";"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang++" -stdlib=libstdc++ -arch armv7 -isysroot “/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS14.2.sdk” -ObjC -all_load -fobjc-link-runtime -miphoneos-version-min=8 -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /usr/lib/swift -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker @executable_path/Frameworks -L"/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/libtemplate" -L"/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.bit" -L"/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.airprint" -L"/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.qrscanner" -F"/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/libtemplate" -F"/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.bit" -F"/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.airprint" -F"/Users/laura/Desktop/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/.build/plugin.qrscanner" -framework AudioToolbox -framework AVFoundation -framework CFNetwork -framework CoreGraphics -framework CoreLocation -framework CoreMedia -framework CoreMotion -framework CoreVideo -framework CoreText -framework GameKit -framework GLKit -framework ImageIO -framework MapKit -framework MediaPlayer -framework MessageUI -framework MobileCoreServices -framework OpenAL -framework QuartzCore -framework Security -framework StoreKit -framework SystemConfiguration -framework UIKit -framework WebKit -weak_framework GameController -weak_framework AssetsLibrary -weak_framework Photos -weak_framework Foundation -weak_framework Twitter -lobjc -lsqlite3 -ltemplate -lplugin.bit -lplugin_airprint -lplugin_qrscanner -o “/var/folders/f2/ylxh1gwn2ns2rgdsn6c90_8h0000gn/T/CLtmpjV5yuQ/armv7/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only”

Done.

When I run the app on the device I get the following error

Dec 06 13:28:44.154 [Device] table: 0x280cbc540 [Device] Handling the unhandled error module ‘plugin.asreader’ not found:resource (plugin.asreader.lu) does not exist in archive [Device] no field package.preload[‘plugin.asreader’] [Device] no file ‘/var/containers/Bundle/Application/417F5938-D725-41C3-A3D8-838715306EAE/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/corona-plugins/plugin/asreader.lua’ [Device] no file ‘/var/containers/Bundle/Application/417F5938-D725-41C3-A3D8-838715306EAE/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/plugin/asreader.lua’ [Device] no file ‘/var/containers/Bundle/Application/417F5938-D725-41C3-A3D8-838715306EAE/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/plugin/asreader.lua’ [Device] no file ‘/var/containers/Bundle/Application/417F5938-D725-41C3-A3D8-838715306EAE/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/corona-plugins/plugin/asreader.so’ [Device] no file ‘./plugin/asreader.so’ [Device] no file ‘/var/containers/Bundle/Application/417F5938-D725-41C3-A3D8-838715306EAE/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/plugin/asreader.so’ [Device] no file '/var/containers/Bundle/Application/417F5938-D725-41C3-A3D8-838715306EAE/Harvest_App_Solar2d_Only.app/corona-plugins/plug<\M-b\M^@\M-&>

When the app builds it says “examining plugin.asreader” but in the link section there are references to all the other plugins, but no reference to the asreader I am not sure if I packaged the plugin incorrectly or put it in the wrong spot, as it doesn’t seem to be linking to it. The plugin does work when I build the app from xCode using the Native project template.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!