Workaround for Swift scripts crashing after update to Xcode 11.4
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Igor Kulman
If you have already updated to Xcode 11.4 that ships with Swift 5.2 you might have noticed that your Swift scripts all started crashing when accessing anything related to URL.
I use a script to generate a list of libraries used in the app and their licenses and running it now results in
Stack dump:
0. Program arguments: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/swift -frontend -interpret test.swift -enable-objc-interop -stack-check -sdk /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk -color-diagnostics -module-name test
1. Apple Swift version 5.2 (swiftlang-1103.0.32.1 clang-1103.0.32.29)
2. While running user code "fetch_licenses.swift"
0 swift 0x000000010e62d4ea PrintStackTraceSignalHandler(void*) + 42
1 swift 0x000000010e62ccc0 SignalHandler(int) + 352
2 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x00007fff71c8242d _sigtramp + 29
3 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x0000000000004936 _sigtramp + 2386044198
4 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x00000001172ce020 _sigtramp + 2774842384
5 swift 0x000000010a3b09ba llvm::MCJIT::runFunction(llvm::Function*, llvm::ArrayRef<llvm::GenericValue>) + 458
6 swift 0x000000010a3b7a2b llvm::ExecutionEngine::runFunctionAsMain(llvm::Function*, std::__1::vector<std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> >, std::__1::allocator<std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > > > const&, char const* const*) + 2011
7 swift 0x000000010a38caea performCompileStepsPostSILGen(swift::CompilerInstance&, swift::CompilerInvocation&, std::__1::unique_ptr<swift::SILModule, std::__1::default_delete<swift::SILModule> >, bool, llvm::PointerUnion<swift::ModuleDecl*, swift::SourceFile*>, swift::PrimarySpecificPaths const&, bool, int&, swift::FrontendObserver*, swift::UnifiedStatsReporter*) + 14362
8 swift 0x000000010a3814a5 swift::performFrontend(llvm::ArrayRef<char const*>, char const*, void*, swift::FrontendObserver*) + 55813
9 swift 0x000000010a2f74d3 main + 1283
10 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff71a847fd start + 1
11 libdyld.dylib 0x000000000000000b start + 2388113423
fish: '/usr/bin/env xcrun swift fetch_…' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
This is a Swift bug that has been already reported.
Luckily I found a workaround!.
If you do not run the script directly with swift but instead compile it first with swiftc and then run the binary, everything works just fine.
Update: The problem is caused by having other tools that bundle Swift libraries installed on the system, like swiftlint and uninstalling them solves the crash.