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title: Swift Package Manager as a library
framework: swift-package-manager
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role_heading: Article
path: swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/swiftpmasalibrary
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# Swift Package Manager as a library

Include Swift Package Manager as a dependency in your Swift package.

## Overview

Overview warning: The libSwiftPM API is unstable and may change at any time. Swift Package Manager has a library based architecture and the top-level library product is called libSwiftPM. Other packages can add SwiftPM as a package dependency and create powerful custom build tools on top of libSwiftPM. A subset of libSwiftPM that includes only the data model (without the package manager’s build system) is available as libSwiftPMDataModel. Any one client should depend on one or the other, but not both.

## See Also

### Guides

- [Creating a Swift package](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/creatingswiftpackage.md)
- [Setting the Swift tools version](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/settingswifttoolsversion.md)
- [Adding dependencies to a Swift package](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/addingdependencies.md)
- [Resolving and updating dependencies](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/resolvingpackageversions.md)
- [Creating C language targets](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/creatingclanguagetargets.md)
- [Using build configurations](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/usingbuildconfigurations.md)
- [Packaging based on the version of Swift](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/swiftversionspecificpackaging.md)
- [Bundling resources with a Swift package](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/bundlingresources.md)
- [Releasing and publishing a Swift package](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/releasingpublishingapackage.md)
- [Generating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/generatingsboms.md)
- [Continuous Integration Workflows](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/continuousintegration.md)
- [Plugins](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/plugins.md)
- [Module Aliasing](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/modulealiasing.md)
- [Using a package registry](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/usingswiftpackageregistry.md)
- [Package Collections](swift-package-manager/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/packagecollections.md)