Excellent! I'll start poking at this ASAP—my team and I can't wait to have Swift on our embedded Linux box.
Thanks! Cody > On Dec 4, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Cody Krieger <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm interested in getting Swift cross-compiling to arm(v7)-linux. (For my >> specific use case, I actually need to be able to cross-compile for arm-linux >> from a *Darwin* host. A little strange, I know.) >> >> In digging through the build scripts and CMake listfiles, I discovered that >> cross-compilation is not supported in a way that is sufficiently generic to >> support my use case; it's all pretty special-cased around Darwin => iOS (or >> derivative) cross-compilation. >> >> I can't imagine more than, like, three people want to do Darwin => arm-linux >> cross-compilation, so adding support for that specific combination upstream >> seems pretty useless—but if the build scripts supported cross-compilation in >> a fairly generic fashion, I imagine that's something that more people would >> be happy to see. >> >> Given that it seems like a non-trivial amount of build script/CMake work is >> needed to support cross-compilation in a generic way, I'm curious if there >> is even a remote desire to see that land in the tree. If so, I'd be more >> than happy to spearhead or otherwise assist with that effort. > > Hi Cody, > > I think making our cross-compilation more general is a very good > direction. That will involve more complexity in the build scripts, > true, but I think that is necessary complexity for a successful > compiler project. > > I don't think cross-compiling to arm-linux from OS X would be a rare > thing in Swift community, if it was supported "out of the box". > > However, build-script-impl as a shell script has surpassed a > comfortable size a long time ago -- it is over 2K lines now. If > someone would take on porting it to a language that scales better for > larger programs and is easily available on our targets (python?), it > would be really awesome. > > Dmitri > > -- > main(i,j){for(i=2;;i++){for(j=2;j<i;j++){if(!(i%j)){j=0;break;}}if > (j){printf("%d\n",i);}}} /*Dmitri Gribenko <[email protected]>*/ _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
