<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 11, 2015, at 8:27 AM, David P Grove via swift-corelibs-dev <<a href="mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org" class="">swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><p class=""><tt class=""><a href="mailto:swift-corelibs-dev-bounces@swift.org" class="">swift-corelibs-dev-bounces@swift.org</a> wrote on 12/11/2015 11:19:15 AM:</tt><br class=""><tt class="">> <br class="">> The linux port is in progress, and even if it built, right now, it <br class="">> wouldn’t be functional.</tt><br class=""><tt class="">> <br class="">> -Pierre</tt><br class=""><tt class="">> <br class="">> Yes. I completely understand that there linux port is not <br class="">> functional. So I want to contribute to it. But it's practically <br class="">> impossible since there is no usable build system :(.</tt><br class=""><br class=""><tt class="">It's limping along. We've managed to run a few programs successfully. </tt><br class=""><br class=""><tt class="">I think the next step is actually to get the test suite to compile & build so we can see what functionally isn't working yet.</tt><br class=""><br class=""><tt class="">Pierre and Daniel, we could use some guidance on how to approach this. The tests have quite a few unguarded includes of mach header files, uses of mach types, and includes of Foundation. How would you like this porting to proceed? Hubertus has already done some initial poking at it, but getting direction on the intended outcome would be very helpful.</tt><br class=""></p></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">We do have an internal test-suite that we can’t share because it rely on internal Apple infrastructure. I haven’t closed the loop with Daniel completely on this but our position I think is that these should be made portable even if that means dropping anything mach related stuff by hiding it behind a #if __APPLE__ or similar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">-Pierre</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>