> On Dec 12, 2017, at 6:06 PM, Saleem Abdulrasool via swift-dev 
> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> The problems with the cross-compiling that Im referring to are not inherent 
> to CMake (although, I am slightly partial to the autotools approach to 
> cross-compilation), but rather the way that the tool is being used within the 
> context of swift.  As an example, libdispatch is extremely easy to 
> cross-compile thanks to its use of CMake.

CMake's cross-compilation machinery was unable to build for iOS at the time 
that Swift needed it. It's possible that CMake has improved enough since then 
that Swift could use more of CMake's built-in capabilities.


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Greg Parker     gpar...@apple.com <mailto:gpar...@apple.com>     Runtime 
Wrangler


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