Creating a Swift Package Manager Project#

To create a new Swift PM project, open the wizard with File → New Project… → Swift Package. Under the hood, Noctule executes swift package init to create the new project. The wizard provides a user interface to configure the settings passed to this command.

Options#

Name: The name of the project. It’s used by the IDE and also serves as the default value for the package name input.
Location: The parent directory for the new project directory.
Swift Toolchain: Defines the default Swift toolchain for the new project. It is also used to execute the swift command to create the new project.
Swift SDK: Defines the default SDK for the new project. By default, no SDK is configured and Swift’s defaults are used.
Package Type: The type of package to create. It’s passed as the value for --type of swift package init.
Package Name: The name of the package. If defined, it’s passed as the value for --name of swift package init.
Enable support for Swift Testing: Whether to enable support for Swift Testing. If enabled, --enable-swift-testing is passed to swift package init. Otherwise, --disable-swift-testing is passed. This option is grayed out if the selected Swift toolchain does not support it.
Enable support for XCTest: Whether to enable support for XCTest. If enabled, --enable-xctest is passed to swift package init. Otherwise, --disable-xctest is passed. This option is grayed out if the selected Swift toolchain does not support it.