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

[Haden Pike <haden.pike@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Haden


On 10/24/2023 9:32 AM, Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> Hey All!
>
> TL;DR: I need help finding out what the minimum requirements for building my swiftmac package,
> I need to confirm it works on Intel, and I would love to build a CI/CD FAT binary generation so no
> build is needed at all.
>
> ----
>
> I am busy working on Swiftmac Server 2.0, but while I do that I am getting ready to contribute
> Swiftmac 1.0 to the Emacspeak project.
>
> Swiftmac v1 link: https://github.com/robertmeta/swiftmac
>
> Swiftmac 1.0 now has proper pitch shift on caps, still has a few little bugs, but is stable and
> mostly just-works (tm).
>
> But, I run the most modern MacOS and a full fat Xcode install, and I am now in the process of
> finding what the absolute minimum of system requirements can be installed to build it.  I think
> it needs XCode command line tools and nothing else.
>
> If someone who has a minimal XCode install could try building it and report back that would be
> great.
>
> Additionally, no testing has taken place on Intel Macs, so people with Intel macs who could try
> it that would be amazing as well.
>
> My final sort of stretch goal would be a CI/CD build that could go in the Emacspeak project to
> generate FAT (intel/arm) binaries and have them be downloadable so there are NO requirements
> on the client side for having XCode installed.  The makefile would download from the Emacspeak
> binary releases.  I already build these and upload them by hand, it would just be a matter of
> doing it via Githubs CI/CD flow.
>
> Anything else I should be considering before I contribute it?
>
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