What is a SwiftShims module?

swift2 xcode7-beta4
Frederick C. Lee picture Frederick C. Lee · Jul 29, 2015 · Viewed 9.1k times · Source

I'm attempting to transform a Swift v1.2 project into a Swift v2.0 project via Xcode 7.0.

I got this during the build:

Swift had fatal errors constructing the ast context for this module: missing required module 'SwiftShims' Debug info from this module will be unavailable in the debugger.

What is the module 'SwiftShims'?
And how would I install it if it is missing?

Answer

darqueos picture darqueos · Oct 15, 2015

I was getting a similar error message regarding the SwiftShims module, so this is probably only a partial solution to your case.

I had to clean all the user data Xcode was using and empty all caches. This did the job for me:

How to Empty Caches and Clean All Targets Xcode 4

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