[swift-users] Importing empty C structs

[Rick Mann]

I'm trying to make a module out of a C library and header file. It has at least one empty struct:

struct lgs_context_t {};

and a function:

LGS_EXPORT struct lgs_context_t* lgs_init(const lgs_context_params_t* params);

Swift sees the function, I can call it and assign the result to a variable, but Xcode (as usual) fails to show me what it thinks the type is. So I can't declare a class member to hold the returned pointer.

I'm trying to declare the member like this:

    var	ctx: lgs_context_t?		//  Use of undeclared type 'lgs_context_t'

I finally tried calling it like this:

    let ctx: UnsafeMutablePointer = lgs_init(...)

and the resulting error message gave me OpaquePointer. But couldn't it just typealias lgs_context_t to OpaquePointer?

Is there any way to do this in the modulemap?

Thanks!

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Rick Mann
rmann at latencyzero.com