Hi Ron, As the unofficial maintainer of Swift on Arm, I can say with confidence that there is no official anything about Swift on Linux/ARM. :)
That said, Swift works and builds fantastically well on the TK1 (which I use as my primary development platform). Also, yes, all official Swift platforms are 64-bit, and that causes some issues occasionally in user code and libraries when people fail to consider 32-bit systems. Swift and it's libraries, however, all work with 32-bit just fine. Any issues I've hit in other places have been pretty trivial. I have spent some time in the past on the Nvidia TX1, with 64-bit userspace, and I did get swift somewhere resembling a working state, but it was a little flaky in some parts. Finally, there is a swift-arm github organization with a set of repos that lag considerably from the mainline, but represent a stable port to arm. It's currently at the Swift 3.0 release. Additionally, there is a swift-arm slack team that you are welcome to join: http://dev.iachieved.it:9909 <http://dev.iachieved.it:9909/> cheers, - Will > On Oct 10, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Ron Olson via swift-dev <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all- > > Is there any "official" place to check what the state of Swift on Linux/ARM > is? Specifically, what HW platforms/distro combinations have working > binaries? I've seen blogs about getting it compiled and working on Raspberry > PIs, but they seem to have caveats as well as general surprise they got it to > work at all. > > I'm trying to compile Swift on an Nvidia TK1 board, which is an arm7+gpu soc > running 32-bit Ubuntu 14, and before I delve too deeply into it (getting some > linker errors), I'm wondering if I should bother; I've read that Swift is for > 64-bit processors only, but then I read about getting it working on a Raspi > where no 64-bit distro is available, AFAIK, so hence my confusion about what > 'works' and what doesn't. > > Thanks for any info, > > Ron > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
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