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Masked Man
Asked: 2017-11-04 05:57:39 +0800 CST

How to install Swift 4 on Ubuntu 17.10?

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According to Swift's official website it's supported platforms are:

  • Ubuntu 14.04
  • Ubuntu 16.04
  • Ubuntu 16.10

Is there any way to install it on a machine running Ubuntu 17.10?

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    When a prebuilt package is not available for the Swift language and libraries, an option is to build from source. This is currently the case for Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10.

    The Swift GitHub repository provides steps to build Swift from source code. The high-level build automation script build-script uses CMake and Ninja build tools.

    The basic steps can be summarized as apt-get install prerequisites, download the Swift source and then run build-script.

    ## 1. Install prerequisites
sudo apt-get install git cmake ninja-build clang python uuid-dev libicu-dev icu-devtools libbsd-dev libedit-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev swig libpython-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config libblocksruntime-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev autoconf libtool systemtap-sdt-dev tzdata

## 2. Download source
mkdir swift-source
cd swift-source
# if using ssh…
git clone [email protected]:apple/swift.git
./swift/utils/update-checkout --clone-with-ssh
# alternately, if using http…
git clone https://github.com/apple/swift.git
./swift/utils/update-checkout --clone

## 3. Build source
cd swift
utils/build-script --release-debuginfo

    URLs are provided to contribute back and report bugs.

    Use the search term "17.10" in the Swift bug reporter to find information on issues (both resolved and unresolved) that others have already looked at for a source-base installation of Swift on Ubuntu 17.10.

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  2. On 17.10 this worked for me: 

    sudo apt install ubuntu-make
umake swift

    Update

    This also works on ubuntu 18.04.

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  3. Some adjustment needed to the code above

    Change:

    git clone [email protected]:apple/swift.git

    to

    git clone https://github.com/apple/swift.git

    or you will get an error - unless you are using ssh, in which case some other commands are missing.

    Full Edit below:

    # 1. Install prerequisites
sudo apt-get install git cmake ninja-build clang python uuid-dev libicu-dev icu-devtools libbsd-dev libedit-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev swig libpython-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config libblocksruntime-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev autoconf libtool systemtap-sdt-dev tzdata

# 2. Download source
mkdir swift-source
cd swift-source
git clone https://github.com/apple/swift.git
./swift/utils/update-checkout --clone


# 3. Build source
cd swift
utils/build-script --release-debuginfo
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