This repository contains example projects demonstrating how to setup a Swift project with CMake. Make sure to use the CMake Ninja generator and Ninja build tool. These hopefully cover a wide variety of use cases. Patches to add examples of missing use cases are welcome.

• Hello Minimal
  • Simple project with a pure Swift library and executable
• Build Dependencies
  • Simple project with a library that depends on an external package which is built as part of the build
• Hello World
  • Multi-library project with C and Swift code

CMake is a meta-build system that allows you to generate the build rules using different build tools. It also makes it possible to setup the build in a way which supports cross-compiling for various targets (including Linux, Windows, and android).

If swiftc is not in your path, you will need to add -DCMAKE_Swift_COMPILER= with the path to swiftc.

cmake -B build -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -D BUILD_TESTING=YES -G Ninja -S .
ninja -C build
ninja -C build test

set SWIFTFLAGS=-sdk %SDKROOT%
cmake -B build -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D CMAKE_Swift_FLAGS=%SWIFTFLAGS% -D BUILD_TESTING=YES -G Ninja -S .
ninja -C build
ninja -C build test

This invocation builds the project in release mode with debug information. This enables optimized builds with debug information (or release only). Additionally, the standard CMake option BUILD_TESTING is used to enable tests.

These project build on Linux, macOS, and Windows!

• CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE

  • Debug (no optimizations, debug info)
  • Release (all optimizations, no debug info)
  • RelWithDebInfo (all optimizations, debug info)
  • MinSizeRel (optimized for size)

• MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY (Windows Only)

  • MultiThreadedDebugDLL (MDd)
  • MultiThreadedDLL (MD)