Getting started

Known issues

Protocol conformance tables are not correctly loaded from the main executable, causing any program containing an enum to immediately segfault. Will be fixed in the next release. (Issue 5 on the issue tracker)

Install required software

You need Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit to run the prebuilt version. (Other versions of Linux are not supported at this time)

Install Clang and libbsd:

sudo apt-get install clang libbsd0

If you don't have Android SDK's ADB, sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb

Install Android NDK - version r10e Linux 64-bit

Configure NDK and linker

run export ANDROID_NDK_HOME=/path/to/ndk

run sudo ln -s $ANDROID_NDK_HOME/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-ld.bfd /usr/bin/armv7-none-linux-androideabi-ld

Install and run SwiftAndroid

Extract the downloaded file:

tar xf swift_android_2015-12-12.tar.xz

Write a simple Hello World program, and save it as hello.swift.

Now, try building the executable:

swiftandroid/bin/swiftc-android hello.swift

Run the resulting executable

Push the executable and all its dependent libraries to the Android device.

There's a script that will do this for you: run

swiftandroid/bin/swift-android-push hello

to push hello and the libraries to /data/local/tmp

You also need to push libc++_shared.so (I forgot to include it in the script :( )

adb push $ANDROID_NDK_HOME/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++/libs/armeabi-v7a/libc++_shared.so /data/local/tmp

Run the executable, passing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to where the executable and libraries are saved

adb shell LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp/hello

Issues, problems?

Please report any issues to the issue tracker