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

Han tinysun.net at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 19:25:40 CDT 2016


I was busy. Before cleaning build procedure, I merged recent snapshot, and resolving conflict,  followed up some bug, modified and checked Cygwin build. Now in cleaning build procedure for MSVC, I decided to change the cmake generator to Ninja from MSBuild - it is more faster when recompiling.

It will be finished in soon. But don't expect too much, ... you should use hexa editor to build the static library.

- Han Sangjin

2016. 4. 28. 6:09 Joel Van Eenwyk <joel.vaneenwyk at gmail.com> :

> Hi Han,
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> I’ve synced and ready to help out on this.
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> “For building MSVC port, it will be better waiting several days until I prepare a draft build manual - current build description is too dirty (/misc/Build_msvc.txt).”
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> Any updates on this?
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> --Joel
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> From: Shawn Erickson [mailto:shawnce at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 8:27 AM
> To: Sangjin Han <tinysun.net at gmail.com>; Joel Van Eenwyk <joel.vaneenwyk at gmail.com>
> Cc: swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org>
> Subject: Re: [swift-dev] Swift port to Windows : Offering help!
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> Trying to get back on PR1950 today.. fighting to get things building again after a recent update-checkout.
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> -Shawn
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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:18 PM Sangjin Han via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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> Hi Joel,
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> I list some URLs.
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> Bug/Feature report in http://bugs.swift.org
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> SR-34 Port Swift to Windows (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-34)
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> SR-612 In Cygwin port, print() crashed at hook (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-612)
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> SR-1128 autolink extraction does not work on Cygwin (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1128)
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> SR-1131 Build script for MSVC on Windows (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1131)
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> Pull Requsts in http://github.com/apple/swift 
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> [stdlib/msvc] Runtime with MSVC library (https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1918)
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> -- Currently working on. Waiting passing PR #1950.
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> [swiftc/msvc] Compiling with MSVC library (https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1516)
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> -- Waiting some more opinions or reviews.
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> [runtime] enhanced and refactored recently added Mutex abstraction (https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1950)
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> -- This is not about porting, but it enhances portability by removing POSIX pthread. After merging, PR #1918 will be more simpler.
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> IRGen: add support for DLL Storage semantics (https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2080)
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> -- I think this is the most important topic for Windows/MSVC porting, but not Cygwin port.
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> Issues in Mailing list
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> Subject: "swift (ABI) and Windows" in https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20160404/subject.html and  https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20160411/subject.html 
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> Subject: "long double usage in swift" in https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20160321/subject.html
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> My Repo for Patch
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> Repository: https://github.com/tinysun212/swift-windows/tree/upstream-with-windows
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> binary for MSVC: https://github.com/tinysun212/swift-windows/releases/tag/swift-msvc-20160418
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> binary for Cygwin: https://github.com/tinysun212/swift-windows-bin/tree/master/swift-cygwin
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> Help
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> If you are also interested in Cygwin port, it is also very helpful to verify/check the build manual (it is placed at /BUILD-CYGWIN-64.md in root of my repo), so that we make a PR for master, and everyone build the Cygwin port without my forked repo.
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> For building MSVC port, it will be better waiting several days until I prepare a draft build manual - current build description is too dirty (/misc/Build_msvc.txt).
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> If you once run the compilers, you can see they are lack compared to Linux or OS X.
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> All of that is only on swift port. For swift-lldb, swift-corelibs-foundation, swift-corelibs-libdispatch, I have not touched at all.
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> Han Sangjin
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> 2016-04-22 8:20 GMT+09:00 Joel Van Eenwyk <joel.vaneenwyk at gmail.com>:
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> Hi Han,
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> --Joel
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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Sangjin Han via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 1. Cygwin port
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>   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.
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>   Currently, you can build the swift compiler and standard library if you applying my 'informal' hacked patch and build manual.
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>   To-be tasks are verifying and sharing the build manual, porting the autolink-extract module, passing failed test code, etc.
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> 2. Window port
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>   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.
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>   Currently, there is a 'informal' compiler that barely compiles Hello.swift.
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>   To-be tasks are the solving problems, dllimport/dllexport problem for DLL, build script problem, plus all tasks of Cygwin's.
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> I'll give you related links in next post.
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> Han Sangjin
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> 2016-04-22 3:29 GMT+09:00 Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com>:
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> CC'ing Han, the maintainer of the Cygwin port.
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Joel Van Eenwyk via swift-dev
> <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
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> > 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. :)
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> > 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.
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> > All the best,
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> > --Joel
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