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At the moment (Kotlin 1.5-M1), Kotlin/Native does not support generating binary frameworks where one depends on another. There are only two working configurations supported right now:

1. using multiple independent K/N generated frameworks; or
2. exporting all your Kotlin modules as one monolithic K/N generated framework (also known as the "umbrella framework" approach in the community).

If you are planning to organize your code into a hierarchy of Kotlin modules, (2) is your only option. You either:

1. use only the framework product from the example module, whose framework product already contains all the code of all its dependencies (incling the transitive ones and the Kotlin runtime), as you might have observed; or
2. create a new e.g. iosExport module that exports all the modules that should be API visible to your iOS codebase.

The issue tracking improvements in this area: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42247

This topic has been briefly touched on by the official KMM documentation:

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/mpp-build-native-binaries.html#export-dependencies-to-binaries [...] For example, assume that you write several modules in Kotlin and then want to access them from Swift. Since usage of several Kotlin/Native frameworks in one Swift application is limited, you can create a single umbrella framework and export all these modules to it.