Swift language does not work in wsl

[GERMANOCARELLA]

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• A brief description
  I installed swift language downloaded from www.swift.org, for ubuntu 16.04.
  I installed clang and libicu-dev.
  So I ran
  swift

• Expected results
  A swift shell

• Actual results (with terminal output if applicable)
  Failed to run REPL process: a packet returned error: 8

• Your Windows build number
  Last build

• Steps / All commands required to reproduce the error from a brand new installation
  download from www.swift.org
  tar xzf swift-release.tar.gz
  cd swift-directory
  cp -R * /
  apt install clang libicu-dev
  swift

• Strace of the failing command

• Required packages and commands to install
  clang
  libicu-dev
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[AndyDeany]

You should probably be using the version of Swift for Ubuntu 14.04, as this is what Bash for Windows is based upon (you can check your version with lsb_release -a, but it should be 14.04). I still get the same issue with the correct version however.

Ignore me, it's 16.04, thanks @fpqc.

[GERMANOCARELLA]

Hi,

Probably is because swift uses executable stack that is not supported in
wsl.

Il 10/11/2016 10:56, Andrew Dean ha scritto:

You should probably be using the version of Swift for Ubuntu 14.04, as
this is what Bash for Windows is based upon. I still get the same
issue with the correct version however.

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[fpqc]

@AndyDeany Nope, new official target is 16.04.

[AndyDeany]

@fpqc Really? How do I update?

[jackchammons]

sudo do-release-upgrade

[jackchammons]

Marking this Swift issue as a duplicate of #286