Unable to set swift version

Shilpee · October 19, 2021, 4:42pm

Hi,I am newbie swift learner and was trying to install swift environment. I am stuck and I would appreciate your help. I have Xcode 13.0 and swift 5.5 installed.

Here is what I did to install swift environment:
1)git clone GitHub - kylef/swiftenv: Swift Version Manager ~/.swiftenv
2)nano ~/.bash_profile
everything was empty there so I wrote as follows:
#swiftenv

export SWIFTENV_ROOT="$HOME/.swiftenv"

export PATH="$SWIFTENV_ROOT/BIN:$PATH"

eval "$(swiftenv init -)"
Then I saved it.
3)wrote ~./bash_profile
4)swiftenv
5)swift versions

got an error:
error: unable to invoke subcommand: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/swift-versions (No such file or directory)
6) for once I ignored this and wrote: cd /Library/Developer/Toolchains
7)pwd
8) ls-la
9)I got
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128 Oct 19 20:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 128 Oct 19 20:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 224 Oct 19 20:45 swift-5.5-RELEASE.xctoolchain
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 59 Oct 19 20:45 swift-latest.xctoolchain -> /Library/Developer/Toolchains/swift-5.5-RELEASE.xctoolchain
10) cd ~/Desktop/
11)swiftenv global
zsh displayed: swiftenv: version is not set

Now,Here at this point I felt there is something wrong.

Jon_Shier · October 19, 2021, 5:10pm

Modern macOS systems use zsh, not bash, as the default shell, so you'll need to modify the appropriate files for that shell (~/.zprofile) or switch to bash.

Shilpee · October 19, 2021, 7:32pm

Thanks for your help Sir, I tried and it's giving me error again.

In bash profile page I pasted this:
echo 'export SWIFTENV_ROOT="$HOME/.swiftenv"' >> ~/.zshenv
echo 'export PATH="$SWIFTENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshenv
echo 'eval "$(swiftenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshenv

Peter-Schorn · October 19, 2021, 9:02pm

You're more likely to get help if you open an issue on the swiftenv github repository, not here.

rhx · October 22, 2021, 9:45pm

The command you need to use is

swiftenv versions

(not swift versions).

Shilpee · October 23, 2021, 12:55pm

swiftenv versions command did worked but still its showing version not set.

Peter-Schorn · October 23, 2021, 7:42pm

That's because you never set the version.

swiftenv versions lists the available versions. To set the version to 5.3, for example, run:

swiftenv global 5.3

swiftenv --help gives you information on how to use this tool.

Shilpee · October 24, 2021, 5:53am

Ohh yeah😅 It was so obvious.
I never set the version because I didn't know the right command for it.

Thanks btw.