swift-package-manager

# Swift Package Manager Project

The Swift Package Manager is a tool for managing distribution of source code, aimed at making it easy to share your code and reuse others’ code. The tool directly addresses the challenges of compiling and linking Swift packages, managing dependencies, versioning, and supporting flexible distribution and collaboration models.

We’ve designed the system to make it easy to share packages on services like GitHub, but packages are also great for private personal development, sharing code within a team, or at any other granularity.

Swift Package Manager includes a build system that can build for macOS and Linux. Starting with Xcode 11, Xcode integrates with SwiftPM to provide support for including packages in iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS applications.

The [SourceKit-LSP](https://github.com/swiftlang/sourcekit-lsp) project leverages libSwiftPM and provides [Language Server Protocol](https://langserver.org/) implementation for editors that support LSP.

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## Table of Contents
* [Getting Started](#getting-started)
* [Documentation](#documentation)
* [System Requirements](#system-requirements)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [Reporting issues](#reporting-issues)
* [License](#license)

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## Getting Started

Please use [this guide](https://www.swift.org/documentation/package-manager/) for learning package manager basics.

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## Documentation

For Quick Help use the `swift package --help` command.

For documentation on using Swift Package Manager, creating packages, and more, see the [Package Manager Docs](https://docs.swift.org/latest/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/).

For documentation on developing the Swift Package Manager itself, see the [contribution guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).

For detailed documentation on the package manifest API, see [PackageDescription API](https://docs.swift.org/latest/documentation/packagedescription/).

For release notes with information about changes between versions, see the [release notes](https://docs.swift.org/latest/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/releasenotes/).

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## System Requirements

The package manager’s system requirements are the same as [those for Swift](https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/blob/main/docs/HowToGuides/GettingStarted.md#system-requirements) with the caveat that the package manager requires Git at runtime as well as build-time.

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## Installation

The package manager is available as part the Swift toolchains available on [Swift.org](https://swift.org/download/) including snapshots for the latest versions built from `main` branch. For installation instructions for downloaded snapshots, please see the [Getting Started](https://swift.org/getting-started/#installing-swift) section of [Swift.org](https://swift.org).

The Swift Package Manager is also included in Xcode 8.0 and all subsequent releases.

You can verify your installation by typing `swift package --version` in a terminal:

```sh
$ swift package --version
Apple S