[swift-corelibs-dev] Wrapping up Swift 3 for swift-corelibs

[Daniel Dunbar]

Can someone file a bug to track how we are going to resolve this issue, and outline our options? I want to make sure we have enough eyes on it to make sure we get what we need for Swift 3.

 - Daniel

> On Aug 1, 2016, at 3:08 AM, Chris Bailey <BAILEYC at uk.ibm.com> wrote:
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> I had a quick conversation with Daniel Dunbar on this. Adding -Xcc -fblocks as a default option to Swift PM (on Linux). The wrinkle is the availability of the blocks runtime - it would either need to become a pre-req for Swift, or needs one to be built into the package. 
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> Chris
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> From:        David P Grove via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> 
> To:        Swift corelibs dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> 
> Date:        28/07/2016 18:50 
> Subject:        Re: [swift-corelibs-dev] Wrapping up Swift 3 for swift-corelibs 
> Sent by:        swift-corelibs-dev-bounces at swift.org 
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> Tony Parker wrote on 07/28/2016 01:41:55 PM:
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> > 1. Integrate swift-corelibs-dispatch into Foundation.
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> Hi Tony,
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> Hopefully this is on the task list already, but if it isn't we should add it before it gets to be too late to change the compiler...
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> When compiling a Swift program on Linux that imports Dispatch (or Foundation once the integration is done), the user has to give the extra compilation flags -Xcc -fblocks to enable block support.
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> We really need to land a change somewhere so that either (1) blocks support is always on for Linux or (2) importing Dispatch or Foundation automatically turns on blocks support.
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> I have some time today and tomorrow that I could use to work on this if no one is handling it already, but I'm not sure how best to tackle the problem.  Suggestions?
> 
> --dave
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