Include XCTest in the distribution archive about swift HOT 5 CLOSED

Sorry about that, that's fixed now. I forgot to change the dependency to the upstream AnyCodable repo instead of my fork, which I deleted today 🤦‍♂️

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I see. I know it's really hard to compile Foundation. So I changed my opinion for build_script.py. I think it's easier to support static library distribution for SwiftPM than to use build_script.py.
If SwiftPM supports that, it's valuable for not only XCTest but also other preinstall libraries.

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I couldn't build swiftwasm/swift-corelibs-xctest. Is the build broken now?

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@MaxDesiatov Thanks! Now succeeded building.

The problem is that there's no static archive available for XCTest (libXCTest.a) to be linked as a system framework as a result of a swift build run in our fork of XCTest.

I think this is because SwiftPM doesn't support static library emission. So if you want to use SwiftPM build system to build XCTest, you need to support that at first.

BTW can we use swift-corelibs-xctest's build_script.py? I think it's a better way to avoid bootstrap problem while building toolchain.

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build_script.py most probably doesn't use Package.swift and SwiftPM, but uses CMake, and therefore probably expects upstream Foundation and Dispatch to be available. I haven't tried it though, I'm having a few additional attempts to build Dispatch for WASI first.

Another alternative could be enabling static libraries in SwiftPM, at least I was able to get something building locally with manual swiftc invocation passing -emit-library -static to it. Maybe if I don't get Dispatch/Foundation working well, I'll try that.

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