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

[Tom Sheffler]

I have used libdispatch without Foundation - but that was on Ubuntu 14.04 and using the libdispatch from the distribution.  (I did not compile it.)

-T


> On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Isaac Gouy via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 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: 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch 
>>> 
>>> :and built the libraries. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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? 
>>> 
>>> mandelbrot.swift-2.swift:78:40: error: use of unresolved identifier 'NSUTF8StringEncoding' 
>>> 
>>> See 
>>> http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=mandelbrot&lang=swift&id=2#log 
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