How to Install Swift 4.0.3 on MacOS
Introduction
Swift is a general purpose, compiled and multi paradigm language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, MacOS, tvOS, Linux, and WatchOS. It was designed to develop applications mainly for iOS and MacOS. Apple introduced Swift in 2014 at Apple’s worldwide developers conference.
In this tutorial, we will learn the installation process of Swift 4.0.3 on MacOS.
Prerequisites
- MacOS
- Login as root user on terminal
Installation
Following steps are used to install Swift on MacOS.
1) Download the latest version of Swift:
In order to install Swift 4.0.3 on our MacOS, first we have to download it from its official website https://swift.org/download/ . We download the latest version that will be downloaded as a package file on the computer which can be installed easily by terminal.
2) Install Swift
The package file is downloaded in the downloads folder. The file can be installed by the installer command on terminal. Let’s see the installation process:
When we finiashed installing Swift 4.0.3 on our MacOS, we just type swift on terminal to check whether its installed properly or not as shown below.
3) Check Swift version
To check, which version of swift is installed on our computer, we have to just type swift -version as shown below.
Well we have installed Swift successfully on MacOS.