Creating a Swift Package Manager Project

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Opening a Swift Package Manager Project

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Opening a Swift Package Manager Project#

You can simply open the directory containing the Package.swift file in your IDE.

If you would like to work on several Swift projects at the same time, then open the parent directory containing all the projects.

Noctule will detect all Package.swift files inside the directory hierarchy and pass these directories to the Swift language server.

To work with a project on Windows WSL, the SourceKit-LSP server must be launched on the WSL system. Open the project from the WSL filesystem, e.g. \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\projects\my-project. Noctule detects Swift toolchains managed by Swiftly, which are located on the WSL Linux system, and launches the LSP server inside the WSL system.

Swift Package Manager Projects on Noctule

Creating a Swift Package Manager Project

Creating a Swift Package Manager Project#

Options#

Opening a Swift Package Manager Project

Opening a Swift Package Manager Project#