virtualswift - Swift virtual environment builder.

Virtualswift is a tool for creating isolated 'virtual' swift environments. Read the medium article here.

If you are familiar with python, then virtualswift is to swift what virtualenv is to python.

Prerequisites

On Ubuntu

You need all dependencies required for the swift language. The following command should install everything: sudo apt-get install clang libicu-dev

On Mac

You need to install xcode required by the version of swift you intend to use. See xcode and macOS versions required for each release of swift here.

As of now, if you have xcode 9 beta or later, you can install only swift 4. I have not figured out a workaround for running multiple versions of swift in different virtual environments on a mac machine. However, on ubuntu you can run different versions of swift in different virtual environments.

📚 Installation Steps

Automatic Installation

1. Run bash <(curl -Ls https://github.com/ankit1ank/virtualswift/raw/master/install.sh)

2. Verify installation by running which virtualswift. If the output looks like the following the installation is successful.

   /usr/local/bin/virtualswift
   

Manual Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/ankit1ank/virtualswift
   

2. Copy the script to any folder that's in your path variable.

   cd virtualswift
   sudo cp ./virtualswift /usr/local/bin
   chmod +x /usr/local/bin/virtualenv
   rm -rf virtualswift # Delete the cloned repo
   

3. Verify installation by running which virtualswift. If the output looks like the following the installation is successful.

   /usr/local/bin/virtualswift
   

Unistallation

Simply, remove the script to uninstall.

rm 	/usr/local/bin/virtualswift

📚 Usage

1. Create a new virtual environment

   virtualswift myenv
   

2. Activate the virtualenv.

   cd myenv
   source ./activate
   

   The command line prompt changes to indicate that the virtual environment is activated.

3. You can deactivate the activated virtual environment.

   deactivate

By default the latest release of Swift (4.1.2 as of now) will be installed. You can choose a different version of swift as shown below:

virtualswift myenv 3.1.1

Supported version numbers: 4.1.2, 4.1.1, 4.1, 4.0.3, 4.0.2, 4.0, 3.1.1, 3.1

👥 Contact Me

Report a bug, Suggest improvements or just say "Hello".

@ankitank