[swift-users] Linux / ARM?

[Brian Swetland]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Brian Swetland <swetland at frotz.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> We don't have resources to develop the port ourselves, but Swift ports
> >> to non-x86 architectures are most welcome!
> >
> > Any pointers or existing docs to look at regarding bringup against new
> > architectures?
>
> I'd attack this problem in this order:
>
> ...

> > I'm definitely interested in Linux-ARM as a target as well
> (cross-compiled
> > more interesting than self-hosted).
>
> Do you mean building a cross-compiler, or cross-compiling the swift
> compiler for ARM?
>
> > I'd hope, given it's based on LLVM and targets IOS-ARM, that this would
> not
> > be a horribly complex thing to attempt.
>
> Since it is an ELF platform, and running Linux, I don't expect major
> issues.
>

I meant building a cross-compiler (host linux-x86-64, target linux-arm).

Thanks for the suggested plan of attack!

Brian
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