How to modify an existing project to ALSO build a package?

Using Swift
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I've several open source projects that build libraries of frameworks. I'd like to provide a Swift Package. But the file structure of the source is already fixed. Can I just add a folder, put the Package.swift file inside it, then use relative addressing (../../../SomeDir/File.m) to indicate source files?

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The Package.swift file needs to be at the repository root if you want it to be usable as a dependency outside the repository. (If it is just a local thing for use inside the same project it doesn’t matter.)

But besides that, you have a lot of freedom to arrange it however you want. The path, exclude and sources arguments for target are what you need to use whenever something isn’t in the standard location.

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Won't I need a huge long list of files to exclude? And won't I need to update that every time new files are added?

Well, that said I recall I can exclude whole folders at a time, which would help a lot.

So yeah, maybe its not as bad as I thought it would be. I just never saw anyone post on doing it...

Thanks!

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Both exclude and sources accept directory paths. But yes, it is not as convenient as using the standard locations and not needing to declare anything.

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