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Swift on Windows

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Compile and Build Swift Porject on Windows with the help of WSL

Requirements

Windows Subsystem for Linux (I have tried on Debian & Ubuntu Distro)
Python2.7 on WSL
(Optional) VSCode with SwiftLanguage Extension

Installing Swift

Visit https://swift.org/download/ and check for the latest release.

$ wget --no-check-certificat https://swift.org/builds/swift-4.2-release/ubuntu1604/swift-4.2-RELEASE/swift-4.2-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04.tar.gz

$ mkdir ~/swift
$ tar -xvzf swift-4.2-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04.tar.gz -C ~/swift

Dependences

$ sudo apt install python-swiftclient clang libicu-dev libpython2.7 libxml2 libcurl3 -y

IF you have problem getting libicu

$ wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu55_55.1-7_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libicu55_55.1-7_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install

Create a Project

$ mkdir sampleProject && cd sampleProject
$ ~/swift/usr/bin/swift package init --type executable

Build & Run it manually

$ ~/swift/usr/bin/swift build 
$ ./.build/x86_64-unknown-linux/debug/sampleProject

Easy Build & Run Using VSCode Task

I have writen a vscode task, so that I can build & run my code my project without opening terminal.

Get the tasks.json and put it inside yourProjectFolder/.vscode
Build & Run using Ctrl+Shift+B
Be sure to have swift package at ~/swift/ (obviously you can change the directory inside tasks.json)

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