Build with swift instead of xcodebuild

[StefMa]

Change the build script to build with swift instead of xcodebuild.

This is part of #19. Currently aperture can't be build on linux (so maybe this is part of #7 as well 🤔 but haven't looked in detail inside the PR) which means it can't build in Docker as well.

swift is available on multiple operating systems (e.g. linux) but xcodebuild not.
So changing the build script to build with swift you only have to install swift on your given OS and you are fine to build aperture 🎉

Probably you want to modify the Package.swift to fits your needs. But I should that would be done later by you :)

[StefMa]

😞 I found out that

you only have to install swift on your given OS and you are fine to build aperture
isn't true 😢

Because on Linux system (or Dockers) I got the message

aperture.js/swift/aperture/Recorder.swift:1:8: error: no such module 'AVFoundation'
Because AVFoundation isn't available on Linux 😞

[StefMa]

Anyway. It would be great if we can merge it because it is one step closer to support other operating systems 👌

[matheuss]

Wooo @StefMa, amazing! I tried that when I first started, but I never managed to get it working. Will test ASAP 🙌

[sindresorhus]

I don't mind using swift directly to compile, but I don't understand the argument about Linux. The Swift code is highly coupled to macOS and will never run on Linux.

[StefMa]

I thought when we compile with swift (because it is available for linux as well) instead of xcodebuild it will be possible to compile the code on linux environments.
But it can't build on linux because of the AVFoundation 😞

The idea behind this was to create a workaround for #19.
Because I don't found any information about building and distribute a binary via npm

[sindresorhus]

The idea behind this was to create a workaround for #19.

@StefMa You're overthinking it. All that's needed for #19 is to switch the compilation from postinstall to prepublish.

[StefMa]

Oh, really? Make sense 😁 Anyway, have now some experience with swift and xcodebuild 🤣 If you like to merge it feel free. Otherwise just close this PR...

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[sindresorhus]

Actually, I don't see enough benefit in this change. It's safer to use xcodebuild as it follows the build settings in the Xcode project file. This change is also incorrect as the compiled binary needs to include Swift itself, as the Swift ABI is not stable. xcodebuild does this automatically.

[StefMa]

Closed because the PR make no sense 😹