The dependency is not GCC per se, but CRT required for dynamic linking. This is not exclusive to Swift, you'd see it in any language that has C interop and dynamic linking with system libraries.
I'm glad you found environment that suits your needs, but happy to help if you ever consider Swift again🙂

I feel like this installation of the toolchain with swiftly wasn't successful, I thought dependencies like that are meat to be installed or at least checked by Swiftly.
Is this reproducible for you in any of the official Swift container images, Ubuntu or Debian? That would ensure a clean environment

Could you clarify which dependencies you're referring to? The sample package in the guide has no dependencies, I'd like to understand how your build happened to have any?

For clarity, whatever the dependencies were, those wouldn't be Xcode-related. Xcode is exclusively a macOS application.

No, it was never required. @queenofmars.space would you kindly clarify where you got that incorrect information from about Xcode? Xcode is not required for (and for that matter doesn't support) building for Wasm on any platform.

Majority of us are on Mastodon 😉

Thank you ☺️

Thank you 🙇

Thanks! Libraries are the next frontier, I look forward to seeing the results 🙏

Thank you! It took some time to get here 🥹