[swift-dev] Swift port to Windows : Offering help!

[Joel Van Eenwyk]

Hi Han,

Thanks for the details! Do you have a custom fork or branch with these
changes? I'd love to be able to test this out and contribute if you think
that could help you out. I can get started on testing what you have now as
soon as tomorrow.

Cheers,

--Joel

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Sangjin Han via swift-dev <
swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:

>
> I'm writing code for Windows/Cygwin port on my free time. There is no well
> documented information about that. Instead I'll give you some information
> and several links for you.
>
> 1. Cygwin port
>   Cygwin is a POSIX environment on Windows. Porting to Cygwin is
> relatively easer than Windows native. This is x86_64-unknown-windows-cygwin
> in llvm target name.
>
>   Currently, you can build the swift compiler and standard library if you
> applying my 'informal' hacked patch and build manual.
>
>   To-be tasks are verifying and sharing the build manual, porting the
> autolink-extract module, passing failed test code, etc.
>
>
> 2. Window port
>   This is x86_64-pc-windows-msvc in llvm target name, so I call this
> 'Windows with MSVC library' when confusing with Cygwin - Windows with
> Cygwin DLL. Porting to Windows is harder than Cygwin. Swift source uses
> C++11 standard with some POSIX functions, GNU extension functions as well
> as platform specific codes for OS X or Linux, and the build script for
> Swift supposed to run on BASH shell. To compile the Swift source, we should
> use the Clang compiler for clang specific feature.
>
>   Currently, there is a 'informal' compiler that barely compiles
> Hello.swift.
>
>   To-be tasks are the solving problems, dllimport/dllexport problem for
> DLL, build script problem, plus all tasks of Cygwin's.
>
> I'll give you related links in next post.
>
> Han Sangjin
>
>
> 2016-04-22 3:29 GMT+09:00 Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com>:
>
>> CC'ing Han, the maintainer of the Cygwin port.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Joel Van Eenwyk via swift-dev
>> <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm a very new user of Swift and interested in finding ways to
>> contribute to
>> > the project. I can happily work with the Linux port of the project, but
>> I
>> > have a lot of Windows development experience and would probably be most
>> > useful there. Where can I find information about the current status of a
>> > Windows port (if any)? Perhaps I'm blind but finding any 'official'
>> > information about a Windows version has been quite tricky. :)
>> >
>> > For background on me, I'm primarily a game programmer and the company I
>> work
>> > for (Havok) recently got acquired by Microsoft. Working on some open
>> source
>> > projects is just something I'm interested in exploring in my free time.
>> >
>> > All the best,
>> >
>> > --Joel
>> >
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