Re: [Emacspeak] Swiftmac Server: MacOS / Swift / Minimal Build Requirements Help Wanted

[Haden Pike <haden.pike@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rather than merging the whole thing, can you just add a file like

#!/usr/bin/env swift

import server


server.main()

Then the user can set dtk-server to this or the compiled one?

Haden


On 10/24/2023 11:57 AM, Robert Melton wrote:
> Haden--
>
> I actually had it built that way initially.  My reasons for changing it to prebuilt are:
>
> 1. Easier multi-file organization
> 2. Fail at build-time not at run-time.  This is a big one for me, as it makes it a good pairing with
>      the python version, which fails at runtime.
> 3. The compile time can take a bit which would really slow startup and possibly confuse.
> 4. Not sure how to message missing swift / broken compile from inside emacs.
> 5. Follows Apples best practices to build it using the Swift project structure
>
> That said, I wonder if this is a why-not-both situation.  I could merge my structure into one
> large file with the swift header, then you could be pre-compiled or ad-hoc compiled.
>
> > On Oct 24, 2023, at 11:38, Haden Pike (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I don't have a Mac any more, but I think Swift could also be used as an interpreter? So you would add
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/env xcrun swift
> >
> > to the top of the server, and the user just has to have the xcode command line tools installed. Seems easier than building a binary.