Hi Alex, Yes of course using the Swift PM is what I needed to do. What was I thinking! ;p It worked, however SwiftProtobuf 1.0.0 does not build cleanly with Swift 4.0 due to the rework of the Strings API. I hope someone will clean that up soon.
I appreciate your feedback and time, Ed On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Alex Blewitt <alb...@apple.com> wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2017, at 21:41, Geordie J via swift-users < > swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > > >> swift build -Xswiftc -I/home/ed/swift-protobuf/.build/release -Xlinker > -L/home/ed/swift-protobuf/.build/release > > > > Have you considered using Swift Package Manager to add protobuf as a > project dependency? Then you wouldn’t have to mess around with command line > arguments at all. I haven’t used protobuf yet so can’t help with specifics. > > I'd strongly recommend using Swift Package Manager to help you here. You > need to compile and build protobuf and have that linked into your product > at the same time. Since this is what Swift PM works well for that's > probably the longer-term supported way forward. > > If you're still trying to do this via the command line, I recommend > finding where you're compiling the .so for the swift-protobuf code, then > using nm and grep to look through that library to confirm whether or not it > contains the symbols that your code thinks is missing. > > If you have acquired a swift-protobuf binary library from somewhere else, > it may not have the Swift code you're looking for, or it may be compiled > with a different version of Swift, both of which can affect the names of > the symbols being linked. Generally speaking, any _T* symbols are Swift > symbols, and that's usually a clue that either they are not present in the > libraries you have specified in the command line, or the library you're > linking against doesn't have them. Follow the rabbit down the hole and find > out which if you are against using Swift PM. > > Alex > > >
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