Swift not found

Using Swift
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Installed Swift with exe installer, installed Visual Studio support libraries and set path with:

setx PATH "$Env:PATH;%LocalAppData%\Programs\Swift\Toolchains\6.1.2+Asserts\usr\bin"

but Swift still is not available, swift -version returns nothing:

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PS C:\Users\purpln> swift.exe -version
PS C:\Users\purpln> where.exe swift
C:\Users\purpln\AppData\Local\Programs\Swift\Toolchains\6.1.2+Asserts\usr\bin\swift.exe
PS C:\Users\purpln> C:\Users\purpln\AppData\Local\Programs\Swift\Toolchains\6.1.2+Asserts\usr\bin\swift.exe -version
PS C:\Users\purpln> swift -version
PS C:\Users\purpln>

libraries installed:

MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ ARM64/ARM64EC build tools (v14.44-17.14)
MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v1444-17.14)
Windows 11 SDK (10.0.26100.3916)
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I would recommend not using PowerShell, particularly to ensure that things are working. Once the installer runs, starting a new CMD shell should have swift in the path (where swift should find the path). If that doesn't, then the installer is silently failing. The logs should help shed light on what is failing.

Also, please provide more information about where you are running this. Is this ARM64 or X64?

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Thanks for your response,
Windows 11 arm64.
Tried to use Swift from CMD got these errors:

The code execution cannot proceed because <library>.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.

where <library> are swiftCore, swiftWinSDK, swiftDispatch, swiftCRT

After specifying:

setx PATH "$Env:PATH;%LocalAppData%\Programs\Swift\Runtimes\6.1.2\usr\bin"

PowerShell Swift started to responding on swift -version, CMD - doesn't.
Still fails on building. Compiles SwiftPM successfully, but there are errors on linking:

lld-link: error: could not open 'msvcrt.lib': no such file or directory
lld-link: error: could not open 'oldnames.lib': no such file or directory
lld-link: error: could not open 'msvcprt.lib': no such file or directory

How to get logs from Swift installer?

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When you run the installer, you can pass /lv*x to get verbose logs.

However, if you are running on ARM64, there might be some issues with the official releases. I would cross check the behaviour if you use a recent release from GitHub - thebrowsercompany/swift-build: Swift toolchain builds by The Browser Company.