Swift on the PI

Prepared for SwiftMiami meetup between Giannini Charles and Benjamin Law.

A lot of the knowledge was gleaned and adapted from the amazing Marc Aupont, iOS Engineer at Lickability!

His guides are here!

• https://lickability.com/blog/swift-on-raspberry-pi/
• https://lickability.com/blog/swift-on-raspberry-pi-workshop/
• https://lickability.com/blog/swift-on-raspberry-pi-workshop-part-2/
• https://lickability.com/blog/swift-on-raspberry-pi-workshop-part-3/

For now, here's a step-by-step on how you can setup a raspberry pi 4 to run using Swift code in April 2021!

Will update this as we work on the repo

Setting up Remote Build System

This allows you to remote into the raspberry pi and update the code using Xcode, the preferred IDE for iOS/ MacOS/ tvOS/ watchOS developers.

• Setup passwordless SSH between your machine and the pi.

• Install Xport to build your Swift project on a remote machine.

• Install Xport on your machine:

• I used Mint, install mint, then install Xport.

• Launch Xcode, create a new project. build external build system.

• Follow the lickablility directions I named mine RemotePiBuilder, and the SwiftPackage I named SwiftOnThePi.

• Important: Change the Swift-tools-version in Package.swift to match the version of Swift your raspberry pi has installed, or you could have issues.