Thanks Alex, This is similar to what I though. Appreciate you taking time to explain.
> On Oct 6, 2017, at 1:38 AM, Alex Blewitt <alb...@apple.com> wrote: > >> On 5 Oct 2017, at 22:47, Igor Mironenko via swift-users >> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >> >> This may be a strange question, but I would like to understand, since both >> Mac OS and Nuttx RTOS are POSIX certified would it be possible in any way to >> create a program using Swift language but compile to run it on Nuttx? >> >> Is it something that would require a special compiler to be build >> specifically for Nuttx, just like there is one for Swift for Linux? In my >> understanding Swift compiles to a binary code and does work with C/C++. What >> am I missing here? I googled and looks like I'm the only one interested in >> such work. > > Hi Igor, > > Currently Swift requires libraries such as libswiftCore to be compiled for > the target platform before being able to compile Swift programs for that > platform. This has a number of dependencies, including being able to build a > custom build of clang and other support libraries such as dispatch and > foundation. > > While there is work that allows this project to be compiled for Linux > platforms, and others are working on porting it to Android, and other more > estoteric platforms, there's nothing been done so far (that I'm aware of) > that has targetted Nuttx. > > You are likely to have to do some work in order to get Swift building on > Nuttx first - once that's done, you may be able to cross-compile programs > from a Mac to do there. > > Alex _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
