Compile Swift code to native executable for Linux

Question

I've installed Swift lang for Linux (Ubuntu) and it works fine. For example:

print("Hello World")

To run it:

./swift hi.swift

My question is, is it possible to generate a native executable code for it? How?

Answer 1

Listing the executable files in the Swift directory, it has swiftc. It generates a native executable binary by command:

swiftc hi.swift -o hi
./hi