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What

xtool sdk build downloads two files from GitHub releases:

  • the Linux toolset (darwin-tools-linux-llvm, toolset-<arch>.tar.gz)
  • OpenAppleMacrosServer-<arch>

This PR adds two optional environment variables that point at local copies:

Variable Effect
XTOOL_TOOLSET_TARBALL unpack this tarball instead of downloading the toolset
XTOOL_OAM_SERVER use this executable instead of downloading the macro server

Without the variables, xtool sdk build behaves as before.

Why

Builds without network cannot download: Nix builds (the sandbox has no network), other sandboxed package builds, and air-gapped machines. With this change, a package can fetch both files by pinned hash and give them to xtool.

Details:

  • tar runs through /bin/sh (it finds tar on PATH). The Nix build sandbox has no /usr/bin/env.
  • The macro server is written as a new file and then set to 0755. A copy of a read-only source (for example from /nix/store) would keep the read-only mode, and the next step would fail with "You don't have permission".

Tested

On this branch (6b1ad8f, based on main at d802c71), on NixOS x86_64:

  • swift build -c release --product xtool with Swift 6.4.0 (swift.org): builds.
  • xtool sdk build Xcode_27.xip in a network namespace with no network at all (unshare --net), with both variables set: builds the full SDK (iPhoneOS, iPhoneSimulator and MacOSX 27.0). OpenAppleMacrosServer in the result is writable (0755), and the source was a read-only file in /nix/store.
  • The same command without the variables fails at once with Network is unreachable, so nothing else downloads.

The same change (on the joshuaswarren/xtool fork) is in daily use in nix-apple-dev: the SDK builds in the Nix sandbox, and apps built with it run on an iPhone 12 mini (iOS 27.0).

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  • New Features
    • Toolset installation can use a locally provided archive, and macro server installation can use a local copy.
    • When local files aren’t provided, installation continues to download the toolset and macro server as before. This gives users a choice of local or downloaded installation files when setting up the SDK, while retaining the existing download behavior for setups without local files.

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xtool sdk build downloads darwin-tools-linux-llvm's toolset and the
OpenAppleMacrosServer binary from GitHub releases. Builds without network
(Nix and other sandboxed package builds, air-gapped machines) cannot do that.

Two optional environment variables point at local copies instead:

- XTOOL_TOOLSET_TARBALL: a toolset-<arch>.tar.gz, unpacked with tar
- XTOOL_OAM_SERVER: an OpenAppleMacrosServer executable, copied (written as a
  new file, so a read-only source does not make the SDK copy read-only)

Without them, nothing changes.
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SDKBuilder supports local toolset tarballs and OpenAppleMacros servers through environment variables. When the variables are unset, it uses the existing download paths.

Changes: Local SDK artifact installation

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Local artifact installation overrides
Sources/XToolSupport/SDKBuilder.swift
installToolset extracts the tarball specified by XTOOL_TOOLSET_TARBALL, or uses a helper to download and extract the release archive. installMacros copies the resolved target specified by XTOOL_OAM_SERVER, sets its permissions to 0o755, and skips downloading. When the variables are unset, the existing download paths remain in use.

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A literal tilde-prefixed toolset path supplied without shell expansion can still fail, but absolute paths or shell-expanded values work around this narrow configuration case.

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245-253: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Avoid the blocking wait in the local-toolset path.

installToolset(in:) is asynchronous, but Process.waitUntilExit() occupies a cooperative-executor thread while tar runs. The current SDK-build callers run one build serially, so this is an optional performance refactor, not a demonstrated build-availability failure. Process has no attached pipe, so there is no pipe state to drain.

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-            let tar = Process()
-            // /bin/sh finds tar on PATH (the Nix build sandbox has no /usr/bin/env)
-            tar.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/bin/sh")
-            tar.arguments = ["-c", "exec tar xzf \"$0\" -C \"$1\"", local, toolsetDir.path]
-            try tar.run()
-            tar.waitUntilExit()
-            guard tar.terminationStatus == 0 else { throw Console.Error("Could not unpack toolset \(local)") }
+            try await Subprocess.run(
+                .name("tar"),
+                arguments: ["xzf", local, "-C", toolsetDir.path],
+                output: .discarded,
+                error: .discarded
+            )
+            .checkSuccess()
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Update the local-toolset branch in installToolset(in:) to run tar asynchronously
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- Around line 245-253: Update the local-toolset branch in installToolset(in:) to
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a few comments! re Nix, consider using NixOS/nixpkgs#548520 for a bona fide xtool derivation

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if let local = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["XTOOL_TOOLSET_TARBALL"] {
let tar = Process()

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use Subprocess like we do for the existing tar xzf operation

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private func installMacros(in output: URL) async throws {
if let local = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["XTOOL_OAM_SERVER"] {
let dest = output.appendingPathComponent("OpenAppleMacrosServer")
// write a new file: a copy would keep the read-only mode of the Nix store

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why not copy and change permissions?

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good idea!

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private func installMacros(in output: URL) async throws {
if let local = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["XTOOL_OAM_SERVER"] {
let dest = output.appendingPathComponent("OpenAppleMacrosServer")

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nit: we should hoist this and reuse it in the let outputPath further down

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- local toolset: Subprocess.run(tar) like the download path, no blocking Process wait
- move the download into downloadToolset(into:), so the existing code keeps its indentation
- local macro server: copyItem + setAttributes; resolve symlinks first, because
  copyItem copies a symlink as a symlink (a relative link then dangles in the SDK)
- hoist outputPath and reuse it
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- Line 286: Normalize the XTOOL_TOOLSET_TARBALL value before passing it to tar
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Thanks for the review! Addressed in fbe451d and acc11fc:

  • local toolset: Subprocess.run with tar, like the download path
  • moved the download into downloadToolset(into:) so the existing code keeps its indentation
  • copy + chmod: you're right. My first version failed for a different reason than I thought: the path I passed (from a Nix package) is a relative symlink, and copyItem copies a symlink as a symlink, so the copy dangled in the SDK. It now resolves symlinks, copies, then sets 0755.
  • outputPath hoisted and reused
  • (from CodeRabbit) XTOOL_TOOLSET_TARBALL is made absolute before tar runs in toolsetDir. I left out ~ expansion, since that is the shell's job.

Re-tested: built with Swift 6.4; sdk build with no network (unshare --net) with a symlinked and a plain read-only macro server and with a relative tarball path; and an app built against that SDK runs on an iPhone.

Thanks for the pointer to NixOS/nixpkgs#548520 too. I'll look at whether my flake can use it.

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@kabiroberai I think your review points are all addressed now in fbe451d and acc11fc. Could you take another look when you have time? Thanks!

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