Package manifest at '/Package.swift' cannot be accessed (/Package.swift doesn't exist in file system)

Question

Good Day,

I was working on a project and did a build onto my device for some testing and close down the computer for a few days. When I went to open the project back up today Im being met with this error.

"the package manifest at '/Package.swift' cannot be accessed (/Package.swift doesn't exist in file system)"

I tried all the recommended solutions I saw here on Stack with no resolution. The strange thing is that I didn't touch anything and did a build before closing it down so I'm downright stumped into whats going on here.

To help test, I made a totally new project and started to import some packages that I had on my other project. That project works just fine and the files seem to be the same.

Any help on solving this would be appreciated

Answer 1

For me, this was happening while attempting to checkout a SPM dependency at a version that didn't yet have a Package.swift (i.e. didn't support SPM yet), e.g.:

.package(name: "MyDependency", url: "https://github.com/user/MyDependency.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "1.0.0")),

While only e.g. v2.0.0 had a Package.swift declared.

Solution was to set the version to a version that had a Package.swift, e.g.:

.package(name: "MyDependency", url: "https://github.com/user/MyDependency.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "2.0.0")),