Installing swift toolchain issues

Jeyaram_Jeyaraj · May 4, 2016, 6:01pm

Hi All,

I'm trying to follow the instructions here

apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main/Docs/GettingStarted.md

# Getting Started

## On macOS

Although macOS is not a deployment platform for Swift Foundation, it is useful for development and test purposes.

In order to build on macOS, you will need:

* The latest version of Xcode
* The latest version of the macOS SDK (at this time: 10.15)
* The [current Swift toolchain](https://swift.org/download/#snapshots).

> Note: due to https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-12177 the default Xcode toolchain should be used for now.

Foundation is developed at the same time as the rest of Swift, so the most recent version of the compiler is required in order to build it.

The repository includes an Xcode project file as well as an Xcode workspace. The workspace includes both Foundation and XCTest, which makes it easy to build and run everything together. The workspace assumes that Foundation and XCTest are checked out from GitHub in sibling directories. For example:

```
% cd Development

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It indicates to install the current Swift toolchain and points to this link:

Now if I scroll down I see the instructions as:
Installation

1.

Download the latest package release <https://swift.org/download>\.
2.

Run the package installer, which will install an Xcode toolchain into
/Library/Developer/Toolchains/.

   An Xcode toolchain (.xctoolchain) includes a copy of the compiler, lldb,
   and other related tools needed to provide a cohesive development experience
   for working in a specific version of Swift.

but if I click on the link mentioned in #1, I get back to the top of the
page, it indicates I can install XCode 7.3.1 from the apple store (which I
already have installed), but I do not see the directory
/Library/Developer/Toolchains/. mentioned in step 2.

What am I doing wrong here? also If I go to preferences then navigate to
components -> Toolchains, I don't see a installed xcode swift 2.2 snapshot.

Thanks.