# \#freebsd **URL:** https://forums.swift.org/tag/freebsd/218.md [Latest](https://forums.swift.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forums.swift.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forums.swift.org/tags.md) --- ## [Swift on FreeBSD Preview](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-freebsd-preview/83064)
**Author:** [@etcwilde](https://forums.swift.org/u/etcwilde)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2026, 3:02am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-freebsd-preview/83064 "2026-07-18T03:02:28Z")
We have been hard at work to bring the Swift toolchain to FreeBSD. A preview Swift bundle for FreeBSD 14.3+ is available at https://download.swift.org/tmp-ci-nightly/development/freebsd-14\_ci\_latest.tar.gz. The bundle co… --- ## [Swift on FreeBSD aarch64 — Two Weeks of Progress: Native 6.4 Toolchain, Mutex Deadlock Fix, and swiftly PR](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-freebsd-aarch64-two-weeks-of-progress-native-6-4-toolchain-mutex-deadlock-fix-and-swiftly-pr/87639)
**Author:** [@networkextension](https://forums.swift.org/u/networkextension)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-freebsd-aarch64-two-weeks-of-progress-native-6-4-toolchain-mutex-deadlock-fix-and-swiftly-pr/87639 "2026-06-26T22:39:53Z")
I've been spending the past couple of weeks working to bring Swift to FreeBSD on arm64 hardware. swift.org ships no FreeBSD arm64 binaries, and the FreeBSD ports tree only carries Swift 5.10.1 for x86. The goal is to cl… --- ## [ICU is now namespaced in Foundation!](https://forums.swift.org/t/icu-is-now-namespaced-in-foundation/81540)
**Author:** [@compnerd](https://forums.swift.org/u/compnerd)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/icu-is-now-namespaced-in-foundation/81540 "2025-08-07T22:39:13Z")
Hello Swift developers, ICU is an extremely commonly used library, and is often shipped as part of the OS (be it Linux, Windows, or macOS at least). As Foundation uses ICU internally to work with some of the data types … --- ## [Swift-Driver Platform Support](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-driver-platform-support/41145)
**Author:** [@ArtemC](https://forums.swift.org/u/ArtemC)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-driver-platform-support/41145 "2020-10-22T04:25:32Z")
After its announcement almost exactly a year ago, the swift-driver project is moving full-steam-ahead towards the goal of replacing its C++ predecessor. Recent weeks saw a large amount of activity on the swift-driver rep… --- ## [Add Official FreeBSD Support](https://forums.swift.org/t/add-official-freebsd-support/31804)
**Author:** [@ensoxyz](https://forums.swift.org/u/ensoxyz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 18, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/add-official-freebsd-support/31804 "2019-12-18T06:07:34Z")
I've been patiently waiting since 2014 for Apple to officially support swift on FreeBSD... My initial impressions with Ubuntu weren't great, to say the least. I find the operating system verbose, cluttered and needlessly… --- ## [Swift Compilation on FreeBSD](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-compilation-on-freebsd/20597)
**Author:** [@dschwartz783](https://forums.swift.org/u/dschwartz783)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-compilation-on-freebsd/20597 "2019-11-20T13:32:14Z")
I'm working on getting Swift compiling on FreeBSD. I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but I believe I've narrowed it down to the bottom of "swift/stdlib/public/SwiftShims/CMakeLists.txt". Essentially, the linking of "…