CMAKE_Swift_COMPILATION_MODEΒΆ
Added in version 3.29.
Specify how Swift compiles a target. This variable is used to initialize the
Swift_COMPILATION_MODE property on targets as they are created.
The allowed values are:
incrementalCompiles each Swift source in the module separately, resulting in better parallelism in the build. The compiler emits additional information into the build directory improving rebuild performance when small changes are made to the source between rebuilds. This is the best option to use while iterating on changes in a project.
wholemoduleWhole-module optimizations are slowest to compile, but results in the most optimized library. The entire context is loaded into once instance of the compiler, so there is no parallelism across source files in the module.
singlefileCompiles each source in a Swift modules separately, resulting in better parallelism. Unlike the
incrementalbuild mode, no additional information is emitted by the compiler during the build, so rebuilding after making small changes to the source file will not run faster. This option should be used sparingly, preferringincrementalbuilds, unless working around a compiler bug.
Use generator expressions to support
per-configuration specification. For example, the code:
set(CMAKE_Swift_COMPILATION_MODE
"$<IF:$<CONFIG:Release>,wholemodule,incremental>")
sets the default Swift compilation mode to wholemodule mode when building a release configuration and to incremental mode in other configurations.
If this variable is not set then the Swift_COMPILATION_MODE target
property will not be set automatically. If that property is unset then CMake
uses the default value incremental to build the Swift source files.
Note
This property only has effect when policy CMP0157 is set to NEW
prior to the first project() or enable_language() command
that enables the Swift language.