I've two ubuntu server 22.04.4 machines. One is in local for development and another one is in server for deployment.
I tested the release build in the local and transfer the executable from local folder .build/release/App to server App. In the local server App is running from any folder not only .build/release/App
When I use command ./Server ServerApp --env production then there is an error message,
./Server: error while loading shared libraries: libswiftCore.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I really thought that swift build --configuration release will build standalone binary executable.
In this modern era I really didn't expected the final executable needs runtime libraries instead of using standard operating system API's.
But seems I need run time libraries and I searched lot can't able to find instructions to setup production server. Literally I am new to this. How can I setup and resolve that error?
You're missing the static linking flag during the build:
swift build -c release --static-swift-stdlib
That will produce a binary you can copy around as long as the underlying OS and architecture is the same