Minimum requirements for installing a swift toolchain?

Server Docker
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i’ve been cargo-culting this dependency stack in my dockerfiles for a while now:

FROM amazonlinux:latest
WORKDIR /home/ec2-user/

RUN yum -y update 
RUN yum -y install lsb-release curl git cmake ninja-build clang python \
    uuid-dev libicu-dev icu-devtools libbsd-dev libedit-dev libxml2-dev \
    libsqlite3-dev swig libpython-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config tar

ENV SWIFTENV_ROOT /home/ec2-user/.swiftenv
RUN mkdir -p $SWIFTENV_ROOT
ADD https://github.com/kylef/swiftenv/archive/1.2.0.tar.gz /tmp/swiftenv.tar.gz
RUN tar -xzf /tmp/swiftenv.tar.gz -C $SWIFTENV_ROOT --strip 1

ENV PATH $SWIFTENV_ROOT/bin:$SWIFTENV_ROOT/shims:$PATH
ENV SWIFT_VERSION DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2022-08-01-a
RUN swiftenv install https://download.swift.org/development/amazonlinux2/swift-$SWIFT_VERSION/swift-$SWIFT_VERSION-amazonlinux2.tar.gz
RUN swiftenv global $SWIFT_VERSION

i’ve suspected most of these dependencies aren’t actually necessary to get a swift environment going. (i am not building the compiler from inside the container)

what is the bare minimum dependency stack needed to get a swift environment going?

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I think the list of packages in the Linux section here, though if you're running trunk snapshots, you may need to augment those with some linux packages from the Docker too.

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Nightly Docker images use this Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile - swift-docker/Dockerfile at main · apple/swift-docker · GitHub. This should have most up to date dependencies.

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