vscode-swift-development-environment
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Settings don't default to default toolchain paths as they claim
Settings claim that toolchain path defaults to Xcode default toolchain
and sourcekit-lsp
path defaults to the one from the toolchain path
Neither claim is true. Both fields are empty on a fresh install and nothing works when they are empty. Unless you manually set them to the correct values, nothing will work.
Maybe /Applictations/Xcode.app
has been hardcoded but that would be totally wrong. Xcode doesn't have to be named Xcode.app
, you can name it Xcode 14.3.1 Beta 2.app
if you like, totally valid, nor does it have to be in /Applications
or even on your main drive at all.
Also you don't even need to install Xcode to get the SDK. The developer SDK is also available as a stand-alone download and it would install itself to /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
. It includes all the compilers and libraries, it just misses the Xcode IDE itself.
The correct path for sourcekit-lsp
would be /usr/bin/sourcekit-lsp
, which is a wrapper binary that always calls the real sourcekit-lsp
from the currently active Xcode version or the currently active developer SDK.
To get the true path of the current sourcekit-lsp binary that /usr/bin/sourcekit-lsp
actually calls, you have to run xcrun -find sourcekit-lsp
, which in my case would return
/Volumes/Dev/Xcode/App/Xcode_15.3.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/sourcekit-lsp
or to just get the path using xcode-select -p
:
/Volumes/Dev/Xcode/App/Xcode_15.3.app/Contents/Developer
In case you don't have any Xcode installed or activated, but an SDK, it would print /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
.