Vagrant Swift

A parameterized Vagrant file to create a Swift development environment on Linux with either a stable release or a dev snapshot of the swift toolchain and libraries.

Vagrant Setup

Please see HashiCorp Vagrant Documentation for help on getting Vagrant setup on your machine.

Swift Build Information

Information about available Swift builds and supported Ubuntu versions for each build can be obtained from the swift.org site at http://swift.org/download.

Vagrant Swift supports all builds from the swift.org/download site including:

Releases
Trunk Development (master)
Swift 4.0 Development
Swift 3.1 Development
Older Release Branches (which include all Swift 2.2 builds)

Usage

The vagrant script has been parameterized with 3 optional parameters:

--swift-release
--platform-version
--build

The --swift-release parameter accepts a RELEASE version number in the form of #.#[.#].

The --platform-version accepts the ubuntu version of the VM you would like start. This must match one of the versions supported by the Swift builds on swift.org/download site. The version must be in the form of ##.## (for example 16.04 or 16.10.)

Note: All Swift builds are currently built for ubuntu so there is currently no option to change the OS.

The --build parameter can be used to create an environment from a build listed on the swift.org/download site. You can specify the entire link to the build or just the last path component or build name.

By default, the vagrant script will use the latest release of Swift (currently 3.1.1.) and Ubuntu 14.04 if no parameters are passed. If this is your only requirement, simply call vagrant up as you normally would.

   > vagrant up

To use a particular release, use the following syntax.

   > vagrant --swift-release=3.0 up

And to also supply the platform-version.

   > vagrant --platform-version=16.10 --swift-release=3.0 up

Note: --platform-version and --swift-release can be specified individulally.

For a development trunk or branch snapshot, use the following syntax specifying the build information obtained from the swift.org website for the build.

   > vagrant --build='swift-4.0-DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2017-09-07-a-ubuntu16.04' up

You may also pass the entire path to the --build parameter as in the following example.

   > vagrant --build='https://swift.org/builds/swift-4.0-branch/ubuntu1604/swift-4.0-DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2017-09-07-a/swift-4.0-DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2017-09-07-a-ubuntu16.04.tar.gz' up

Note: all vagrant specific parameters should come after the script parameters --swift-release, --platform-version and --build.

Installation

The best way to install vagrant-swift and be able to get updates as they are made is to use a soft link within your workspace structure. A soft-link created within the root of your project to the Vagrant file in this project will allow you to run vagrant up from the root which will map the current project source files within the Linux VM.

For example, if you place all your projects under a directory named workspaces and have a project called my-swift-project along with a clone of the vagrant-swift project in the same workspace directory:

~/workspaces/my-swift-project
~/workspaces/vagrant-swift

On macOS create a relative link as follows:

cd ~/workspaces/my-swift-project
ln -s ../vagrant-swift/Vagrantfile VagrantFile

Now all you need to do is call vagrant up in your projects root directory, and you will have a fully functional development environment for Swift Linux work.

Note: to avoid checking the symbolic link into your projects git repo, ad Vagrantfile to your .gitignore for the project.

License