Swift language

Synaptic

Hi,

I wanted to install Swift on Solus, while I'm aware that its mainly supported on Ubuntu, it's still Linux and works more or less the same way. (Installing it too). But the problem are the dependencies (List can be found here as scrolled down https://swift.org/download/#using-downloads) Would anyone be able to tell me if there are any of those dependencies available on Solus but under different names?

Thank you

EbonJaeger

Synaptic I think that this should be everything:
sudo eopkg it -c system.devel git curl-devel libedit-devel sqlite3-devel

A lot of it is in the system.devel component without having to install the packages on their own. You can also search for packages with eopkg sr <name>.

Synaptic

EbonJaeger Thank you! It seems that there is something missing after all:

swift: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After searching it via sr I ended up getting nothing back.

EbonJaeger

Synaptic Ah, that's in the ncurses package. At least, libtinfo.so.5 is. I don't know if you'll need the -devel package or not. ncurses is a part of system.base, so it should already be installed.

DataDrake

Someone file a Task on Phab reminding me to enable the .6 ABI for tinfo in ncurses please. I'll forget again.

EbonJaeger

DataDrake https://dev.getsol.us/T9726
🙂

Synaptic

Hi, wanted to check in if this has been added/fixed with the Solus 4.3 by any chance? Due to the fact that I couldn't get Swift working on Solus I had to move off to another distro, but would love to return back to it.

EbonJaeger

Synaptic The linked issue above is still open; checking there would be your best bet to see when it's resolved. 😉

ekurtz

hey ya'll
I'm attempting to build Swift on solus and I think I'm pretty close. I've installed all of the packages above as well as llvm-clang and rsync. Running the buildscript for swift, I'm getting this error ninja: error: manifest 'build.ninja' still dirty after 100 tries, perhaps system time is not set at random points during the build. Googling around I think this might have something to do with my system clock? I have the clock set to sync automatically. Running sudo timedatectl gives me

               Local time: Fri 2022-11-18 12:16:40 CST
           Universal time: Fri 2022-11-18 18:16:40 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri 2022-11-18 18:16:40
                Time zone: America/Chicago (CST, -0600)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks
This is my first time posting in the Solus forums, so I apologize if this is not the right place for this question.

Also, if anyone has managed to run swift on solus, I'd love to hear what you did.

elfprince

ekurtz I read earlier that Swift only runs on Ubuntu at this point.

ekurtz

I hope it's okay to revive this thread to say that I managed to use swift installing it via the docker image as per the instructions on the swift website. Hope this helps someone in the future!

MMUTFX2053

ekurtz how do you set a docker image to behave as if it was installed natively ?

ekurtz

hello again! hopefully I am not breaking any rules by updating this thread.

Since Swift on Linux has seen a lot of energy lately, I decided to revisit running it on Solus.

first, I made sure to run sudo eopkg it -c system.devel

I followed the instructions here to install Swift - unfortunately, Solus falls under an "unsupported" Linux distribution, so when you run the swiftly installer, it asks you to pick which supported version is closest. After reading this thread in the swift forums, I took a shot in the dark and guessed that RHEL 9 was closest. However, I suspect that any choice would be okay, based on the error I was getting.

after installing swiftly and a swift runtime, I would always get the follow error

~/.local/share/swiftly/toolchains/6.2.1/usr/bin/swift: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

the solution was to create a link between where swift expected the ncurses file to be and where it actually is on Solus, running sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libncurses.so /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.6

Hope this helps someone trying to use the Swift language on Solus in the future!