[swift-corelibs-dev] difficulty building Foundation from fresh clone following getting started guides.

[Aaron Crespo]

Thanks I was able to piece this together after reading Brian's reply to the
other Threads.


On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Ian Partridge <ian at poncho.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> I think the problems you're having are because the Foundation
> repository has been migrated to Swift 3, but there is no corresponding
> toolchain available from swift.org yet.  The 3/1/2016a toolchain is
> out of date.
>
> You can build your own toolchain using the utils/build-toolchain
> script from the main Swift repository though.  As Brian Gesiak
> mentioned on this list recently, you'll probably want to comment out
> the tests in the build preset, to save time.
>
> Then, once you have a toolchain, you can install that into XCode 7.3
> beta (which has new support for switching between toolchains).
>
> Having said that, I have tried this myself today, but I can't build
> Foundation using my new toolchain in XCode.
>
> Linking fails with this message:
>
> ld: mach-o string pool extends beyond end of file file
>
> '/Users/ipartrid/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Foundation-ezklcwdscphlbyfeybewgemjwkhl/Build/Intermediates/Foundation.build/Debug/SwiftFoundation.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/NSLengthFormatter.o'
> for architecture x86_64
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
> invocation)
>
> Has anyone else seen this error?  Is there a solution?
>
> Best wishes,
> Ian Partridge
>
> On 12 March 2016 at 21:42, Aaron Crespo via swift-corelibs-dev
> <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> > I was looking into some XCTest starter issues and ran into hiccups
> building
> > Foundation according to the getting started guides.
> >
> > * I'm running Xcode 7.3 with the latest toolchain (3/1/2016a).
> > * fresh clones off master of swift-corelibs-foundation,
> > swift-corelibs-xctest (directory siblings)
> > * CoreFoundation builds fine.
> > * SwiftFoundation fails with multiple errors and missing types.
> >
> > The getting started guides, say to use the "Latest" Xcode should I be
> using
> > 7.2? or is the latest considered the Beta version.
> > It also says to use the latest snapshot which is 3/1/2016a for dev and
> Swift
> > 2.2 for release the Guide link just takes me to the list of all
> snapshots.
> >
> > Should I just open a bug?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Ian Partridge
>
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