Getting VSCode on Linux Mint to properly run Swift with sourcekit-lsp in order to get syntax highlighting and code completion can be rather convoluted. <\/p>\n
Here's how I did it.<\/p>\n
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In VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine with these settings:<\/p>\n
Add the Linux iso as the CD Drive then start the machine. Once booted, double click on the "Install Linux Mint" CD icon then follow instructions.<\/p>\n
Once it reboots, press ENTER to continue, then create name\/username\/account. Once logged in, dismiss the welcome dialog box (you will address these points later if you want).<\/p>\n
The first<\/em> thing you should do after that is to run<\/p>\n in the terminal.<\/p>\n Next, run<\/p>\n Once done, click the "Devices > Insert guest addtions CD image" menu in VirtualBox. Wait a minute while it does its thing.<\/p>\n Then run these commands:<\/p>\n After reboot you should be able to resize the screen window and to properly run the VM on hidpi screens.<\/p>\n Try running this command:<\/p>\n If it doesn't work, follow the detailed instructions specified on VSCode Linux Install<\/a>.<\/p>\n Install the missing bits:<\/p>\n Next, download Swift itself on swift.org. <\/p>\n I used Swift 5.1.4<\/a>. If you're using a different version, you will have to adapt the path accordingly in the rest of this tutorial.<\/p>\n Untar and install in the right place:<\/p>\n Add Swift to the command line path by adding this line at the end<\/em> of your ~\/.bashrc file:<\/p>\n Reload the command line session then run:<\/p>\n to make sure Swift was downloaded and installed correctly.<\/p>\n In order to properly use Swift in VSCode you need to build an extension based on sourcekit.<\/p>\n Run these commands (the building step might take some time):<\/p>\n Move the resulting build to the right place:<\/p>\n Install Node.js 12.x:<\/p>\n Generate the extension for VSCode:<\/p>\n Install the extension:<\/p>\n Launch VSCode then point sourcekit-lsp at your installed toolchain in VSCode\u2019s settings.<\/p>\n Do "File > Preferences > Settings" then type settings.json in the search field. <\/p>\n Click "Edit JSON" then add this between the curly barckets:<\/p>\n Save the file then reload your VSCode window (Control+Shift+P > Reload Window) or restart VSCode.<\/p>\n Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getting VSCode on Linux Mint to properly run Swift with sourcekit-lsp in order to get syntax highlighting and code completion can be rather convoluted. Here’s how I did it. First steps Download and install VirtualBox 6.0. Download Linux Mint Xfce 19.3. In VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine with these settings: Dynamic VDI disk, at… Poursuivre la lecture Swift 5 in VSCode in Linux Mint in VirtualBox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,6],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dev","category-linux","category-swift","tag-english","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aya.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}apt-get update<\/code><\/pre>\napt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo mount -t iso9660 \/dev\/sr0 \/mnt\nsudo apt install -y gcc make perl linux-headers-generic\nsudo sh \/mnt\/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run\nreboot<\/code><\/pre>\nInstalling VSCode and Swift<\/h1>\n
sudo apt install code<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo apt install curl git clang libicu-dev libsqlite3-dev libblocksruntime-dev libncurses5-dev<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo tar xzf swift-5.1.4-RELEASE-ubuntu18.04.tar.gz -C \/usr\/local\/bin<\/code><\/pre>\nexport PATH=\/usr\/local\/bin\/swift-5.1.4-RELEASE-ubuntu18.04\/usr\/bin:"${PATH}"<\/code><\/pre>\nswift --version<\/code><\/pre>\nInstalling SourceKit for VSCode<\/h1>\n
git clone https:\/\/www.github.com\/apple\/sourcekit-lsp.git\ncd sourcekit-lsp\nswift package update\nswift build -Xcxx -I\/usr\/local\/bin\/swift-5.1.4-RELEASE-ubuntu18.04\/usr\/lib\/swift<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo mv .build\/x86_64-unknown-linux\/debug\/sourcekit-lsp \/usr\/local\/bin<\/code><\/pre>\ncurl -sL https:\/\/deb.nodesource.com\/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -\nsudo apt-get install -y nodejs<\/code><\/pre>\ncd Editors\/vscode\nnpm run createDevPackage<\/code><\/pre>\ncode --install-extension out\/sourcekit-lsp-vscode-dev.vsix<\/code><\/pre>\n"sourcekit-lsp.toolchainPath": "\/usr\/local\/bin\/swift-5.1.4-RELEASE-ubuntu18.04\/"<\/code><\/pre>\n