Swift target (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) and compiled output (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) does not align

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Hi

There has been a lot of impressive movement in the Swift dev tooling for NixOS lately and in general it looks really good now thanks to StephanK.

I am however running into an issue which seem to be rooted in how uname is used when compiling underlying Swift assets and how Swift itself decides on the target triplet.

When I run swift --version, I get:

<unknown>:0: warning: glibc not found for 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'; C stdlib may be unavailable
Swift version 5.8 (swift-5.8-RELEASE)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

and when trying to compile my program, get:

<unknown>:0: error: could not find module '_Concurrency' for target 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'; found: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, at: /nix/store/z2s6ijgdlvj04vvscj5gfwi9qgakb2m7-swift-5.8-lib/lib/swift/linux/_Concurrency.swiftmodule

Which seem to imply that the swift module was created by some call to uname, I just cannot seem to track it down.

Anyone has any good ideas on where to start? A recent CI job for my program can be found here.

and this is my flake file.

Thanks!

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Hey I encounter same error today. I tried to install swift using nix-shell:

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
pkgs.mkShell {
  name = "swift-env";

  buildInputs = with pkgs; [
    swift
  ];
}

result was exactlly the same as yours. My walk around this problem is to install swift using enviroment.systemPackages atribute in NixOs configuration.

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I’m having the same issue. Installed swift using environment.systemPackages and still seeing the glibc warning. I’m learning, any help would be helpful.