<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=""><div class="">Sure! In this example, I have built libgit2. I have a directory called Git, and inside that I have the following module map:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">module Git [system] {<br class=""> header "<my path>/libgit2/include/git2.h"<br class=""> export *<br class="">}<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I run, I use:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">swift -I <path-to-“Git”-directory> -L <path-to-built-libgit2> -lgit2 foo.swift</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">inside foo.swift I can:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">import Git</div><div class="">// … use libGit2</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Read more about how to write a more appropriate module.map file for your purposes at <a href="https://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html" class="">https://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html</a>. For example, you might be able to define link flags inside the module.map, use umbrella directories, submodules, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 28, 2017, at 6:27 AM, Kelvin Ma <<a href="mailto:kelvinsthirteen@gmail.com" class="">kelvinsthirteen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Can you give an example?<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Michael Ilseman <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:milseman@apple.com" target="_blank" class="">milseman@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sure. At a low level, you can create a module.map file and use -L/-l flags in your invocation of Swift. If you want to do so at a higher level, then perhaps SwiftPM can. CCing swift-build-dev for the SwiftPM part.<br class="">
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> Idk if this has been asked before, but is there a way to import C libraries into a Swift project without creating a local git repo? Preferably something similar to C where you can just `#include` headers and then specify the link flags (in Package.swift?)<br class="">
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> It’s getting very cumbersome to make a bunch of empty git repos just to use libglfw or libcairo.<br class="">
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