[swift-users] Is there a simple direct way to compile with libdispatch on Ubuntu?

[Isaac Gouy]

Is use of libdispatch in Swift on linux, dependent on the Foundation library, or is there a way to use libdispatch without stuff like 'NSUTF8StringEncoding' ?



On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 10:03 AM, francisbailey 

>I believe NSUTF8StringEncoding is part of the Foindation library which isn't fully implemented yet on Linux. You can see the status for it here: 
>https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/master/Docs/Status.md 

>On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 09:44, Isaac Gouy via swift-users <'swift-users at swift.org'> wrote:

>>So I fetched the source: 
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>>https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch 
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>>:and built the libraries. 
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>>It now seems like I'm missing something that isn't libdispatch related -- or should I have chosen one of those --with-apple- options when I built? 
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>>mandelbrot.swift-2.swift:78:40: error: use of unresolved identifier 'NSUTF8StringEncoding' 
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>>See 
>>http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=mandelbrot&lang=swift&id=2#log