[swift-users] Linux - How to use C libs

[Max Howell]

Indeed, this *should* work, and if we have to do some tricks to make it do so we’re happy to make the modifications, so please file a bug and we’ll look into it. Thanks.

Max

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 11:06 AM, Mish Awadah via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Please file a bug describing the situation and your environment. We’d be happy to make this easier for you in the future.
> 
> - mish
> 
>> On Dec 5, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Damien BRUN via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Works with simple libs which can be referenced by a simple path. With Gdk/Gtk who share a single include dir, module compilation can't find its way. No matter what I try, I end up with :
>> 
>> <module-includes>:1:10: note: in file included from <module-includes>:1: #include “gtk/gtk.h”
>> 
>> ^
>> /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gtk/gtk.h:30:10: error: ‘gdk/gdk.h’ file not found #include <gdk/gdk.h>
>> 
>> Seems like one would have to rewrite gtk/gdk headers to please clang…
>> 
>> 2015-12-05 19:40 GMT+01:00 Damien BRUN <dev at lanza.fr <mailto:dev at lanza.fr>>:
>> 
>> Thanks Harlan for the link, this is what I'm trying to do. =)
>> With interdependent libs, this becomes a mess anyway... (tried gdk/gtk...)
>> & thanks René for the video. Very interesting for what will come next.
>> 2015-12-05 18:07 GMT+01:00 Harlan Haskins <harlan at harlanhaskins.com <mailto:harlan at harlanhaskins.com>>:
>> C libraries require you to create modules for them. There's a great guide with examples for importing libjpeg into Swift on GitHub:
>> https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/blob/master/Documentation/SystemModules.md <https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/blob/master/Documentation/SystemModules.md>
>> On Dec 5, 2015, at 8:58 AM, Damien BRUN <dev at lanza.fr <mailto:dev at lanza.fr>> wrote:
>> Hello Again,
>> Now that I have a functional Swift installation, I'd like to know if/how I can use C libs ?
>> How do I import headers & link to the right libs ?
>> Thanks
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