How to test equality of Swift enums with associated values

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I want to test the equality of two Swift enum values. For example:

enum SimpleToken {
    case Name(String)
    case Number(Int)
}
let t1 = SimpleToken.Number(123)
let t2 = SimpleToken.Number(123)
XCTAssert(t1 == t2)

However, the compiler won’t compile the equality expression:

error: could not find an overload for '==' that accepts the supplied arguments
    XCTAssert(t1 == t2)
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Do I have do define my own overload of the equality operator? I was hoping the Swift compiler would handle it automatically, much like Scala and Ocaml do.

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