Or maybe not, looks like there’s a Unix transport in transports/unix.c. > On 10 May 2016, at 1:48 PM, Luke Howard via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> > wrote: > > There is libxpc from NextBSD: > > https://github.com/NextBSD/libxpc <https://github.com/NextBSD/libxpc> > > You’d still need to implement Mach IPC on top of something though. > > — Luke > >> On 10 May 2016, at 12:35 PM, Brian Gesiak via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org >> <mailto:swift-dev@swift.org>> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the feedback, everyone! >> >> Porting SourceKit to Linux seems like a reasonable solution to me. Still, >> there are 354 lines of code in tools/SourceKit that reference "XPC", so a >> Linux port will take more than a few lines of source code changes. >> >> I imagine we'll need to insert some sort of shim layer that will use libxpc >> on OS X, and a hand-rolled solution for Linux. Alternatively, if anyone >> knows of a good open-source library that implements IPC for Linux (and that >> has a permissible license), that would be a great help here. >> >> I've also seen the idea proposed that Apple could open-source libxpc, which >> we could then port to Linux. This would involve less work than installing a >> shim layer in SourceKit, then in addition implementing a Linux IPC library >> behind the shim. I don't know who I could talk about making this happen, but >> in any case, I filed a Radar: >> >> * rdar://26187442 <rdar://26187442> >> * https://openradar.appspot.com/26187442 >> <https://openradar.appspot.com/26187442> >> > 2. Somehwat unrelated, but the compiler itself (`swiftc`) is not yet >> > written in a way that it can be used from SourceKit. >> >> Could you explain this further? >> >> - Brian Gesiak > > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > swift-dev@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
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