Arch Linux User Repository

While I was able to build this in a clean chroot, consider this package to be a wip.

• According to this comment, swift does need swift to build. So if you haven't previously built this package, you'll need aur/swift-bin.

• This package attempts to install only swift to /usr/lib/swift. Building takes about 15GB. Package is 650MB. Installed size is 2GB.

  • cmark and llvm are built, but not installed. If they are installed, space requirement increases to 20GB, package is 2GB, and installed size 7GB.
  • Above space requirements count only the build tree. Does not include space needed to download and install depends. Does not include temporary files that may have been created and deleted by the build system.

• This package does not make debug symbols. With debugging enabled, over 70GB would be required to build. I don't know package or install size because I hadn't figured out how to install at that time.

to speed up check out of the repositories, use shallow or sparse clone, e.g.:

  GITFLAGS="--depth=1" paru -S swift-language

other options to install swift are currently:

• swift-bin, which repackages tachoknights official released centos8 build: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/swift-bin/. the install is quick, no hours of waiting until everything is compiled.

• latest from git, in swift-language-git. there is a binary built with github actions, but this build is not particularly stable, sometimes it uses more resources than github allows, sometimes it fails for a change upstream. the version number is taken out of the official tag on apple/swift main branch: e.g. swift-language-git-swift.DEVELOPMENT.SNAPSHOT.2020.09.28.a.r208.g6651f6e55d4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. so this one is the development tag from sep 28 + 208 commits, the commit hash is g6651f: aur - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/swift-language-git. gh-actions: https://github.com/soloturn/swift-aur/releases/tag/latest

there was an 5.4.1 binary build, native arch, by fanjiang, built on GCE: https://github.com/ProfFan/swift-aur/releases

i created a continues build now on github which should build it once a day: https://github.com/soloturn/swift-aur/actions

@soloturn I managed to go pass SR-13083 with the following patch:

build() {
     cd "$srcdir/swift"


     # By default in /etc/makepkg.conf this is "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
     # Which will break `compiler-rt`
     unset CPPFLAGS
     unset CFLAGS
     unset CXXFLAGS
     unset LDFLAGS

     export SWIFT_SOURCE_ROOT="$srcdir"
     export PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin/core_perl"
     utils/build-script -R "${_common_build_params[@]}"

EDIT: I got it to compile, but it still failed at building SwiftPM.

thanks for testing this fanjiang, i added you as contributor to swift, and swift-language-git. i do not get this error with the git version and do report bugs in the hope we get a working version in a couple of months.

with 5.3-DEVELOPMENT i get: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-13083

Failed in:

/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/llvm/include/llvm/Demangle/MicrosoftDemangleNodes.h:14:19: error: unknown type name 'uint8_t'
enum Qualifiers : uint8_t {
                  ^
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/llvm/include/llvm/Demangle/MicrosoftDemangleNodes.h:25:27: error: unknown type name 'uint8_t'
enum class StorageClass : uint8_t {
                          ^
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/llvm/include/llvm/Demangle/MicrosoftDemangleNodes.h:38:26: error: unknown type name 'uint8_t'
enum class CallingConv : uint8_t {
                         ^
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/llvm/include/llvm/Demangle/MicrosoftDemangleNodes.h:51:28: error: unknown type name 'uint8_t'
enum class ReferenceKind : uint8_t { None, LValueRef, RValueRef };
                           ^
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/llvm/include/llvm/Demangle/MicrosoftDemangleNodes.h:90:36: error: unknown type name 'uint8_t'
enum class IntrinsicFunctionKind : uint8_t {
                                   ^
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/llvm/include/llvm/Demangle/MicrosoftDemangleNodes.h:181:18: error: unknown type name 'uint16_t'
enum FuncClass : uint16_t {
                 ^
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/llvm/include/llvm/Demangle/MicrosoftDemangleNodes.h:239:8: error: no type named 'string' in namespace 'std'

No idea what is happening...

swig3 dependency not available

Anybody here with the error in libdispatch?

/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/src/semaphore.c:121:2: error: unannotated fall-through between switch labels [-Werror,-Wimplicit-fallthrough]
        case DISPATCH_TIME_NOW:
        ^
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/src/semaphore.c:121:2: note: insert '__attribute__((fallthrough));' to silence this warning
        case DISPATCH_TIME_NOW:
        ^
        __attribute__((fallthrough));
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/src/semaphore.c:121:2: note: insert 'break;' to avoid fall-through
        case DISPATCH_TIME_NOW:
        ^
        break;
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/src/semaphore.c:131:2: error: unannotated fall-through between switch labels [-Werror,-Wimplicit-fallthrough]
        case DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER:
        ^
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/src/semaphore.c:131:2: note: insert '__attribute__((fallthrough));' to silence this warning
        case DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER:
        ^
        __attribute__((fallthrough));
/home/fan/AUR/swift-language/src/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/src/semaphore.c:131:2: note: insert 'break;' to avoid fall-through
        case DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER:
        ^
        break;

Can we please update the package with the correct checksum?

The checksum for the swift-package-manager-5.1.5 is incorrect. sed -i s/24384389af1edba64b2abc08e3a19f949b95ac2ece3099da1d8bda89ffe780fb/073df9514e7ae9a4226af00b79ce8a79ab068ad491b46f7cae4bd23fbd72bb24/ PKGBUILD fixes it.

I'm no expert, but it seems that the downstream fedora package has been updated to v 5.1.5, so the PKGBUILD is not working. Can you update the PKGBUILD file when you have a few mins please?