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 contains a Swift development compiler and Swift runtimes needed for compiling Swift programs on, and for, FreeBSD 14 on x86_64 machines.
Dependencies
The Swift compiler and runtimes have a few dependencies. Please install the following dependencies:
zlib-ng
python3
sqlite3
libuuid
curl
Known Issues
The compiler in the bundle is still under development and isn't part of a release yet and we're not quite done porting everything to FreeBSD.
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