How to get Xcode root folder directory path using Swift

Question

How to get the Xcode project root directory?

Example: /Users/username/MyProjects/Project/. similar to ${SRCROOT}

I checked through FileManager urls and couldn't find the path.

Goal

I am running tests and would like to create a log.txt file in the project root directory.

Gereon · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-04 12:03:00Z

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AFAIK there is no direct way to access this, but what you can do is this for simulator builds:

Modify your xcode scheme to add an environment var SRCROOT with the value ${SRCROOT}

In your code, get the system environment using ProcessInfo:

let srcroot = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["SRCROOT"]

answered Jan 4, 2018 at 12:03

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This will not let a simulator app to save a file on Mac

Did you try it? let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: srcroot + "/dummy"); try "foo".data(using: .utf8)?.write(to: url) just created a file on my machine.

I tried to interact with Mac file system via FileManager and it didn't work. I didn't try your way. Ok, thanks, it's good to know that it works