Making a "fake" package so that I can edit my swift code in a usable editor

[realh]

I'm trying to make a dummy Swift package so that I can edit my code in VS Code or vim with coc/sourcekit_lsp etc. XCode is bad enough at the best of times, and this bug makes it barely usable. By creating a Package.swift and getting a successful build by tricking the swift compiler with some flags I should be able to get live error reporting and completion etc in VS Code. I had this working once before in an iOS-only app, but I can't get it to work with KMM.

If, in my Package.swift, I only use

  dependencies: [
    .package(path: "../GCshared/swiftpackage"),
    //...
  ],
  targets: [
    .target(
      name: packageName,
      dependencies: [
        .product(name: "GCshared", package: "swiftpackage"),
        //...
      ],
      //...
    )
  ]

I get

... error: no such module 'GCshared'
import GCshared
       ^

all over the place. I tried adding:

    .binaryTarget(
      name: "GCshared",
      path: "../GCshared/swiftpackage/GCshared.xcframework"
    )

but then I get this: error: multiple targets named 'GCshared' in: 'gcios', 'swiftpackage'; consider using the moduleAliases parameter in manifest to provide unique names.

[luca992]

Honestly I'm not an expert of how swift package works. But, did you try making your own Package.swift instead of just running ./gradlew createSwiftPackage?