Swift Godot Helper

Build Swift GDExtensions and Debug Godot 4 without leaving VS Code.

Supports Mac/Windows/Linux

Health Checks:

• Godot version
• Swift version
• Visual Studio 2022 (Windows)
• Package.swift
• .gdextension
• project.godot
• export_presets.cfg

Scaffolding:

• Swift package
• New Godot project
• .gdextension file

Tasks:

• Build GDExtension

• Stage GDExtension into Godot project

• Run project

• Build/Stage and Build/Stage/Run

• Import assets into Godot project

• Export project using export_presets.cfg

• Run and Debug

Includes a launch.json that attaches the VSCode debugger to Godot.

On macOS, app hardening prevents attaching a debugger.

The fix is to re-sign a copy of the app.

1. Copy /Applications/Godot.app to /Applications/GodotDebug.app.

2. Create this file:

<!-- godot-debug.entitlements -->
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0"><dict>
  <key>com.apple.security.get-task-allow</key><true/>
  <key>com.apple.security.cs.disable-library-validation</key><true/>
</dict></plist>

3. Run this command:

codesign --force --deep --sign - --entitlements godot-debug.entitlements /Applications/GodotDebug.app/

4. Point to this copy of Godot in the extension settings.