[swift-build-dev] [swift-users] Importing C system libraries

[Josh Parmenter]

On Mar 27, 2017, at 2:10 PM, Jan Neumüller via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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> Is it just me, or is Swift moving to much in a command line direction since the open sourcing? I feel being left behind as an Xcode user...
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> Jan
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you can specify flags in Xcode - Xcode basically just wraps around command line tools anyways for the most part (when it comes to compiling)
Best,
Josh

>> On 27 Mar 2017, at 22:59, Michael Ilseman via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Sure. At a low level, you can create a module.map file and use -L/-l flags in your invocation of Swift. If you want to do so at a higher level, then perhaps SwiftPM can. CCing swift-build-dev for the SwiftPM part.
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>>> On Mar 26, 2017, at 3:20 PM, Kelvin Ma via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> Idk if this has been asked before, but is there a way to import C libraries into a Swift project without creating a local git repo? Preferably something similar to C where you can just `#include` headers and then specify the link flags (in Package.swift?) 
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>>> It’s getting very cumbersome to make a bunch of empty git repos just to use libglfw or libcairo.
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