Swift - Import Source File by Path?

Question

I've been playing around with using Swift as a scripting language, as described here . When executing script files from the terminal in this way, is there a way to include other Swift files by path (ie import /path/to/some/file.swift )? I'm aware of the import statement, but that doesn't seem to accept a file path. In Ruby I would use a require statement, but I don't know if there is a Swift equivalent to this.

Answer 1

import only works with modules . If you need to import a module which is located somewhere besides the normal import search path , you can add another directory to the search paths by passing the -I flag to the compiler:

-I <value> Add directory to the import search path

If you're looking at just a .swift file, you'll need to compile that into a module before you can import it from a separate module or the REPL.