Swift/Win32 - A Swift Application Framework for Windows
Swift/Win32 aims to provide a MVC model for writing applications on Windows. It provides Swift friendly wrapping of the Win32 APIs much like MFC did for C++.
Build Requirements
- Latest Swift Snapshot (9/22 or later)
- Windows SDK 10.0.107763 or newer
- CMake 3.16 or newer
Building
This project requires the latest Swift snapshot (October 24, 2020 or newer). You can use the the snapshot binaries from swift.org or download the nightly build from Azure.
Recommended (CMake)
The following example session shows how to build with CMake 3.16 or newer.
cmake -B build -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=YES -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D CMAKE_Swift_FLAGS="-sdk %SDKROOT%" -G Ninja -S .
ninja -C build SwiftWin32 UICatalog
%CD%\build\bin\UICatalog.exeExperimental (Swift Package Manager)
Building this project with swift-package-manager is experimental and does not fully function. In particular, it is not possible to deploy auxiliary files which are required for Swift/Win32 based applications to function to the correct location. However, the swift-package-manager build can be used with additional manual steps. This also enables the use of VSCode and SourceKit-LSP to develop Swift/Win32 as well as applications using this library.
LLD is the recommended linker to use when using swift-package-manager.
swift build -Xswiftc -use-ld=lld --target UICatalog
copy Examples\UICatalog\UICatalog.exe.manifest .build\x86_64-unknown-windows-msvc\debug\
copy Examples\UICatalog\Info.plist .build\x86_64-unknown-windows-msvc\debug\
.build\x86_64-unknown-windows-msvc\debug\UICatalog.exe
