We discovered the hard way most of the runtime deps that are minimally required 
for any debianish distro. These should probably be put on the website. I would 
open a PR but the website isn't open source (hint, hint).

https://github.com/swiftdocker/docker-swift/blob/master/Dockerfile#L12

Tom

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>   1. Re: Getting Started - swift.org - Ubuntu 14.04 installation -
>      dependencies - libicu-dev (Musser, Dale)
>   2. Re: Ignore header file with module? (Harlan Haskins)
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> From: "Musser, Dale" <musse...@missouri.edu>
> To: "swift-users@swift.org" <swift-users@swift.org>
> Subject: Re: [swift-users] Getting Started - swift.org - Ubuntu 14.04
>    installation - dependencies - libicu-dev
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>> This must be a 14.04 thing, I didn’t have a problem with ICU on 15.10.
> 
> Very likely.  And, as pointed out by Dmitri it is a matter of what comes 
> installed as default on the system.  A server instance is going to be pretty 
> different than a client instance. And, what additional packages were 
> installed over time can change the environment as well.
> 
> I just want it to be as easy as possible for people to get swift installed 
> and working with as few hassles as possible (yeah, buy a Mac!).  A straight 
> forward list of dependencies and how to install them would make it a better 
> experience.  I am pushing students to use swift and plan to use it in an OO 
> course in the spring and would like to point them to swift.org and have it 
> give them what they need to get things installed and running (so I have a 
> selfish motive).  Most of my students will already have an Ubuntu instance 
> that is pretty new and probably set up previously as a server for web app 
> development and C programming.  My instance is a lot like the one’s they have 
> which means for me they will run into at least one dependency issue that 
> swift.org doesn’t mention on the getting started page.  So, I appreciate 
> anything you do to make the getting started page a great place to get started 
> :)
> 
> BTW, swift being available open source is totally awesome! Many thanks to 
> everyone who made this happen.  I wish all my students had Macs, but in a CS 
> program there is a lot of diversity of technology and a lot of opinions on 
> platform of choice.  Being able to get swift in everyone’s hands makes it 
> possible for me to use it in a non-iosDev course (which we have) on a large 
> scale (100+ students per semester).
> 
> Dale
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> From: <mawa...@apple.com<mailto:mawa...@apple.com>> on behalf of Mish Awadah 
> <mawa...@apple.com<mailto:mawa...@apple.com>>
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2015 at 5:36 PM
> To: Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com<mailto:daniel_dun...@apple.com>>
> Cc: Dale Musser <musse...@missouri.edu<mailto:musse...@missouri.edu>>, 
> "swift-users@swift.org<mailto:swift-users@swift.org>" 
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> Subject: Re: [swift-users] Getting Started - swift.org - Ubuntu 14.04 
> installation - dependencies - libicu-dev
> 
> This must be a 14.04 thing, I didn’t have a problem with ICU on 15.10.
> 
> - mish
> 
> On Dec 4, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Daniel Dunbar 
> <daniel_dun...@apple.com<mailto:daniel_dun...@apple.com>> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Dale, this is a good suggestion we will look into it.
> 
> - Daniel
> 
> On Dec 4, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Musser, Dale 
> <musse...@missouri.edu<mailto:musse...@missouri.edu>> wrote:
> 
> I installed Swift on Ubuntu 14.04 according to the instructions on 
> https://swift.org/getting-started/ and ran into the following when running 
> “swift”:
> 
> error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.52: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory
> 
> This was resolved by doing:
> 
> sudo apt-get install libicu-dev
> 
> I think it would be a good idea to add this (and any other dependencies and 
> how to resolve them) on the getting started page on 
> swift.org<http://swift.org/>.
> 
> Students (a good audience for open source swift) are likely to run into this 
> problem and it would be good to make it as easy as possible for them to get 
> swift up and running.  The Ubuntu 14.04 was an instance I installed on Linode 
> that had been set up as a web server and I did not as a matter of course have 
> libicu-dev installed.  And, googling  libicuuc.so.52 or the error didn’t 
> immediately get me to the package leading me to believe users make have to 
> work to find how to resolve the missing library.
> 
> Dale
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> From: Harlan Haskins <har...@harlanhaskins.com>
> To: Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com>
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> Subject: Re: [swift-users] Ignore header file with module?
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> So what happens is flipper.h declares a struct called `flash`. When I use 
> `swift build` to build that module, I get this error:
> 
> /Users/harlan/.flipper/include/flash/flash.h:29:3: error: redefinition of 
> 'flash' as different kind of symbol
> } flash;
>  ^
> /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/usr/include/ncurses.h:566:28:
>  note: previous definition is here
> extern NCURSES_EXPORT(int) flash (void);                                /* 
> implemented */
> 
> Even though I have no need for `curses.h` at all.
> 
>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 6:55 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> (+Jordan, who may have some good ideas)
>> 
>> This is going to be problematic, I am not sure yet how to deal with this.
>> 
>> Can you explain more about exactly how this ends up failing? Do you have 
>> code which imports both Darwin and flipper?
>> 
>> - Daniel
>> 
>>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Harlan Haskins <har...@harlanhaskins.com 
>>> <mailto:har...@harlanhaskins.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> +swift-users, again
>>> 
>>> Yes, the flash struct is necessary, and we can’t really rename it. 😕
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com 
>>>> <mailto:daniel_dun...@apple.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I see now I misunderstood your question, I thought you just wanted to 
>>>> exclude a particular header that was in flipper that defined that struct, 
>>>> so that it wouldn't conflict.
>>>> 
>>>> Is the header that defines said struct in the flipper necessary for your 
>>>> client?
>>>> 
>>>> (FYI probably best to keep swift-users in the CC list if possible just so 
>>>> others can benefit from the info).
>>>> 
>>>> - Daniel
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Harlan Haskins <har...@harlanhaskins.com 
>>>>> <mailto:har...@harlanhaskins.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ah! I somehow missed that keyword in the docs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> However, it seems the path is 
>>>>> /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/usr/include/curses.h
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I intend this to be cross-platform, how can I exclude that file in a 
>>>>> non-Mac specific way?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Also it doesn’t seem to be excluding anything — I still get the issue.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My file is currently
>>>>> 
>>>>> module CFlipper [system] {
>>>>>    exclude header 
>>>>> "/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/usr/include/curses.h"
>>>>>    exclude header 
>>>>> "/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/usr/include/search.h"
>>>>>    umbrella "/Users/harlan/.flipper/include/"
>>>>>    link "flipper"
>>>>>    export *
>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 6:08 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com 
>>>>>> <mailto:daniel_dun...@apple.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Try using:
>>>>>>  exclude header "/path/to/header.h"
>>>>>> in the module definition.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Daniel
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Harlan Haskins <har...@harlanhaskins.com 
>>>>>>> <mailto:har...@harlanhaskins.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is there a way to ignore a specific header file when declaring a C 
>>>>>>> dependency? I’m working with a library that publicly declares `flash` 
>>>>>>> as a struct, and that conflicts with `ncurses`’s definition of `flash`. 
>>>>>>> His code makes no use of curses.h, and I won’t be using it either.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is there any way I can specifically exclude `curses.h` from my 
>>>>>>> modulemap file? It’s a very simple file.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> module CFlipper [system] {
>>>>>>>    umbrella "/usr/local/include/flipper/"
>>>>>>>    link "flipper"
>>>>>>>    export *
>>>>>>> }
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