> On Dec 17, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Tom Sheffler via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> I’m learning about Swift on Linux and using modules to wrap C libraries. One
> of the things I wanted to do was use libdispatch with blocks from Swift. I
> thought it would be easy to use a module to wrap <dispatch/dispatch.h>.
>
> I made a module called “CDispatch” with a module.modulemap like this
>
> =======
> module CDispatch [system] {
> header "/usr/include/dispatch/dispatch.h"
> export *
> link "dispatch"
> }
> ========
>
> Then I created a little demo project called gcd4 whose Source/main.swift
> prints some things and then uses a dispatch queue and a block to print a
> message after 2 seconds delay.
>
> =========
> CDispatch.dispatch_after(time, queue, {
> print("Delayed!")
> })
> ========
>
> The entire project is checked in at https://github.com/sheffler/gcd4
> <https://github.com/sheffler/gcd4>
> and the CDispatch module is checked in at
> https://github.com/sheffler/CDispatch <https://github.com/sheffler/CDispatch>
>
> If I try to “swift build” the project, it almost works but reports that
> dispatch_after is not found. It seems that this function is not defined if
> the “blocks" feature is not provided at compilation time.
>
> ========
> Compiling Swift Module 'gcd4' (1 sources)
> /home/sheffler/swift/gcd4/Sources/main.swift:42:1: error: module 'CDispatch'
> has no member named 'dispatch_after'
> CDispatch.dispatch_after(time, queue, {
> ^~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> <unknown>:0: error: build had 1 command failures
> swift-build: exit(1):
> ["/home/sheffler/src/swift-2.2-SNAPSHOT-2015-12-01-b-ubuntu14.04/usr/bin/swift-build-tool",
> "-f", "/home/sheffler/swift/gcd4/.build/debug/gcd4.o/llbuild.yaml”]
> ========
>
> I got the demo program to work by first using “swift build” to retrieve the
> CDispatch module, and then manually running the compiler like this (and
> including the “-Xcc -fblocks” arguments)
>
> swiftc -v -o gcd4 Sources/main.swift -I .build/debug -j8 -Onone -g -Xcc
> -fblocks -Xcc -F-module-map=Packages/CDispatch-1.0.0/module.modulemap -I
> Packages/CDispatch-1.0.0 -I /usr/local/include
>
> This is all pretty neat! I’ve got blocks, dispatch queues and ARC on Ubuntu.
> I have one question and one remark.
>
> - Am i missing something about how to create the CDispatch module? Why can’t
> “swift build” build this?
This is mostly an oversight, the libdispatch port has been coming up and you
are perhaps the first person to try to integrate all of these things.
I'm not sure yet exactly how we should resolve this, it might be the case that
swiftc should just default to enabling blocks support in the Clang importer. In
any case, can you open a specific bug in JIRA for this issue?
> - Creating Git repositories for simple modules that wrap a single library and
> include a header file or two seems like too much. I would love to have been
> able to create a sub-directory in my project with a modulemap that includes
> <dispatch/dispatch.h> and links libdispatch.so
There will be an easier avenue to getting this working once we have some amount
of C support in the package manager.
Even then, one pro of encouraging the separate definition of module map
packages is so that they can be used by other people. It is cumbersome until we
have a the ecosystem of those packages (and easy ways for people to find them),
but it would be worse if they never ever ended up being shared.
- Daniel
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
> P.S. - I tried to make this easy to check out and compile
>
>
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