<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 11, 2016, at 11:54 PM, Edgar Aroutiounian via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I have some Objective-C that I really want to have work on linux. I saw that core-libs foundation has been implemented for swift so I have some hopes.</span><br style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>This is a re-implementation of a Foundation-like API in pure(?) Swift, not an Obj-C framework.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My understanding is that the Swift/Obj-C integration is not part of the open-source release, because Apple’s Obj-C runtime is not open source.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Ideally I’m looking for a self contained example where I can call Objective C code from swift, think command line tool.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">You should be able to do this by calling the Obj-C runtime’s C API from Swift as you’d call any other C API. (Of course, the details of that C API depend on which runtime you’re using on Linux — IIRC there are at least two of them, and their C APIs are not the same as Apple’s.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div></body></html>