[swift-corelibs-dev] libdispatch build issue

[David P Grove]

phausler at apple.com wrote on 12/11/2015 12:02:30 PM:
> This is only tangentially related: but I was attempting to build
> dispatch as well to start work on CFRunLoop and a few other dispatch
> bound features in Foundation on linux. I was seeing similar failures
> as Dzianis Fedarenka. Is there a branch/fork that I can grab to test
> this stuff out w/ bringing stuff up in Foundation?

If you grab the master branch it should build libdispatch.so on ubuntu
15.04.

I've put a quick cheat sheet in a pull request:
https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/pull/11

There's a patch from Hubertus to get timers at least partially working that
you may want too:
https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/pull/8


> My question is that of design and status of where things are at;
> CFRunLoop requires a method to interoperate with the main dispatch
> queue via _dispatch_get_main_queue_port_4CF and
> _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF. CFRunLoop will need to transact
> upon the same event source type as dispatch to ensure the main queue
> behaves correctly - so what type of event source should we be using?
> A socket? A producer/consumer notification via pthread conditions?

Sorry, I don't understand the code well enough yet to answer this
one :(   I'm sure Pierre or Daniel can.

--dave
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