Swift builds and runs on OpenBSD, with some special considerations. This document was last tested on OpenBSD 7.1, but may also work on later versions.
The following packages are required to build Swift. You can install these via pkg_add
:
$ doas pkg_add bash cmake e2fsprogs git icu4c ninja py3-six python3
Because LLVM is built as part of building Swift and does not include some of the patches to handle the OpenBSD library naming convention, you will need to create some symlinks:
$ doas ln -s /usr/lib/libc++abi.so.2.1 /usr/lib/libc++abi.so
$ doas ln -s /usr/lib/libc++.so.4.0 /usr/lib/libc++.so
$ doas ln -s /usr/lib/libc.so.96.0 /usr/lib/libc.so
$ doas ln -s /usr/lib/libm.so.10.1 /usr/lib/libm.so
$ doas ln -s /usr/local/lib/libicuuc.so.18.0 /usr/local/lib/libicuuc.so
$ doas ln -s /usr/lib/libpthread.so.26.1 /usr/lib/libpthread.so
Note: you may need to update the version numbers if necessary.
Also link ~/bin/python
to the python3
binary:
$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 ~/bin/python
Since the build requires significant amounts of memory at certain points, you may need to ensure that the user you are using to build Swift has the appropriate limits set. Using the staff
group in login.conf
and ensuring the shell limits are raised is recommended.
Download the sources with the Getting Started guide (see "Cloning the project"). Use the config file below when running update-checkout
by specifying the file name with the --config
flag. This config file just prepares cmark, LLVM, and Swift (as this is the minimal set of dependencies which has been tested for OpenBSD).
{
"ssh-clone-pattern": "[email protected]:%s.git",
"https-clone-pattern": "https://github.com/%s.git",
"default-branch-scheme": "main",
"repos": {
"cmark": { "remote": { "id": "swiftlang/swift-cmark" } },
"llvm-project": { "remote": { "id": "swiftlang/llvm-project" } },
"swift": { "remote": { "id": "swiftlang/swift" } }
},
"branch-schemes": {
"main": {
"aliases": [ "main", "swift/main" ],
"repos": {
"cmark": "main",
"llvm-project": "stable/20211026",
"swift": "main"
}
}
}
}
Note: you may need to check utils/update_checkout/update-checkout-config.json
for the correct LLVM stable branch to build against.
Once the sources have completed downloading, you can use the standard build-script
mechanism to start building Swift. However, some options are required to be set to successfully build Swift.
These options are:
--skip-build-clang-tools-extra
and--skip-build-compiler-rt
: to ensure LLVM builds cleanly,--extra-cmake-options=
-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_Backtrace=TRUE,-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_LibXml2=TRUE,-DLLVM_VERSION_SUFFIX=''
: to ensure LLVM builds cleanly,-DSWIFT_ENABLE_DISPATCH=FALSE,-DSWIFT_BUILD_SOURCEKIT=OFF,-DSWIFT_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_CONCURRENCY=OFF,-DSWIFT_IMPLICIT_CONCURRENCY_IMPORT=OFF,-DSWIFT_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_DISTRIBUTED=OFF
: to ensure Swift does not attempt to build libdispatch, which is not yet supported on OpenBSD,-DSWIFT_USE_LINKER=lld
: to specify thatlld
should be used overgold
,-DCMAKE_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local"
: to set the correct platform install directory.
In full, the minimal set of flags to supply to build-script
looks like:
$ ./utils/build-script \
--release \
--skip-build-clang-tools-extra \
--skip-build-compiler-rt \
--extra-cmake-options="\
-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_Backtrace=TRUE,\
-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_LibXml2=TRUE,\
-DLLVM_VERSION_SUFFIX='',\
-DSWIFT_ENABLE_DISPATCH=OFF,\
-DSWIFT_BUILD_SOURCEKIT=OFF,\
-DSWIFT_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_CONCURRENCY=OFF,\
-DSWIFT_IMPLICIT_CONCURRENCY_IMPORT=OFF,\
-DSWIFT_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_DISTRIBUTED=OFF,\
-DSWIFT_USE_LINKER=lld,\
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local"
You may wish to also supply the flag --llvm-targets-to-build=host
, to speed up the LLVM build slightly.
For debug builds especially, consider also installing the llvm
package and setting -DCMAKE_AR=/usr/local/bin/llvm-ar
and -DCMAKE_RANLIB=/usr/local/bin/llvm-ranlib
with the extra-cmake-options
flag, to work around problems creating indexes to archives containing object files with large numbers of section headers.