<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="">When we were first bringing up the project we had a hack that forced the compiler to do incremental builds of the Swift files. However, it turned out that it wasn’t really safe or supported.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If there is some way to actually turn that on now in a way that allows quick turnaround (probably sacrificing things like whole module optimization and stuff), I would be in favor of enabling it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Tony</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2017, at 4:49 PM, Robert F Dickerson 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="">This has probably been discussed in the past, but wanted to revisit the idea of using native Swift tools to build Foundation. I brought this up in the Slack group, and it seemed to be warmly received- although probably still not simple because of some cyclical dependency issues in the build process.<br class=""><br class="">But, I think that there would be a lot of value in being able to build Foundation (and CoreFoundation) only using SwiftPM, in other words, simply with `swift build`. <br class=""><br class="">Now that SwiftPM is improving its ability to pass in compilation flags more easily and C module compilation. I think that the project could be restructured to make this work. What would be the obstacles for getting this working?<br class=""><br class="">
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