[swift-users] Binding Regular C Functions (Gtk, Cairo, etc.)

[Jason Dusek]

I would try cairo or cairo2 first.
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 at 13:26 Gage Morgan <gagemorgan at outlook.com> wrote:

> So if the name of the library is libcairo amd to imstall I had to type
> "sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev, what would I put for "link:?"
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> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:21 PM -0800, "Max Howell" <max.howell at apple.com>
> wrote:
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> No, if the directories are separate they are separate to `swift build`.
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> The problem is it already cloned CCairo into your example, and a
> dependency manager should not change cloned dependencies as part of the
> build process.
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> I agree it is confusing, but I will be adding warnings and information to
> help here. It’s early days.
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> On Dec 9, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Gage Morgan <gagemorgan at outlook.com> wrote:
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> So would things break if I ran swift build in the CCairo directory and
> then example? This so confusing...
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> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 11:19 AM -0800, "Max Howell" <max.howell at apple.com>
> wrote:
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> > Gage,
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> > For what it's worth, after running `git init` and `git tag -f 1.0.0`
> > in `CCairo` to get something importable, I run into this error:
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> > :;  swift build
> > Cloning Packages/CCairo
> > <unknown>:0: error: no such file or directory:
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> '/Users/solidsnack/Downloads/Sources/example/Packages/CCairo/Package.swift’
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>     rm -rf /Users/solidsnack/Downloads/Sources/example/Packages
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> The PM does not update the git repo, by default this is the right behavior
> since you should not change your dependency sources every build. However I
> agree this is confusing in these situations. We plan some sort of “dev
> mode”.
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