There is libxpc from NextBSD: https://github.com/NextBSD/libxpc <https://github.com/NextBSD/libxpc>
You’d still need to implement Mach IPC on top of something though. — Luke > On 10 May 2016, at 12:35 PM, Brian Gesiak via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> > wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback, everyone! > > Porting SourceKit to Linux seems like a reasonable solution to me. Still, > there are 354 lines of code in tools/SourceKit that reference "XPC", so a > Linux port will take more than a few lines of source code changes. > > I imagine we'll need to insert some sort of shim layer that will use libxpc > on OS X, and a hand-rolled solution for Linux. Alternatively, if anyone knows > of a good open-source library that implements IPC for Linux (and that has a > permissible license), that would be a great help here. > > I've also seen the idea proposed that Apple could open-source libxpc, which > we could then port to Linux. This would involve less work than installing a > shim layer in SourceKit, then in addition implementing a Linux IPC library > behind the shim. I don't know who I could talk about making this happen, but > in any case, I filed a Radar: > > * rdar://26187442 > * https://openradar.appspot.com/26187442 > <https://openradar.appspot.com/26187442> > > 2. Somehwat unrelated, but the compiler itself (`swiftc`) is not yet > > written in a way that it can be used from SourceKit. > > Could you explain this further? > > - Brian Gesiak
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