Linux?

[gabebear]

Now that Linux has Swift and GCD... any chance of porting this? https://swift.org

[m3talsmith]

I'm going to attempt this over the weekend.

[damian-kolakowski]

xD

[gabebear]

IBM's Swift Linux repl thing has a http server/client example(server.swift). http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl

[ankitspd]

Foundation for linux is not yet complete so very difficult to port this project to linux
even NSString has so many unimplemented method
https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/master/Foundation/NSString.swift

[damian-kolakowski]

hi all,

I spend some time on the support for Linux. I worked on Socket class and it compiles successfully on Linux machine ( Ubuntu 15.10 Swift 2.2 ). I removed:

1. NSData dependency from HttpServer and Socket classes ( both use [UInt8] array ).
2. String::dataUsingEncoding(...) dependency from HttpServer and Socket classes.

I am going to continue the journey with the following roadmap:

1. Remove NSRegularExpression dependency from HttpServer ( maybe together with routing mechanism redesign ).
2. Remove objc_sync_enter/objc_sync_exit dependency from HttpServer.
3. Remove NSURL dependency from HttpServer.

Guys, if you have any ideas or pull requests please let me know !

best,
dk

[julien-c]

Awesome!

Why do you need to remove the NSURL dependency? What's missing in the
current implementation in Foundation core libs?

How can we help?!

Julien

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hi all,

I spend some time on the support for Linux. I worked on Socket class and
it compiles successfully on Linux machine ( Ubuntu 15.10 Swift 2.2 ). I
also removed NSData dependency from HttpServer and Socket classes ( both
use [UInt8] array ).

I am going to continue the journey with the following roadmap:

1. Remove NSRegularExpression dependency from HttpServer ( maybe together
   with routing mechanism redesign ).
2. Remove objc_sync_enter/objc_sync_exit dependency from HttpServer.
3. Remove NSURL dependency from HttpServer.

Guys, if you have any ideas or pull requests please let me know !

best,
dk

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[damian-kolakowski]

@julien-c thanks :)

The following classes works on Linux:
Socket.swift, HttpRequest.swift, HttpParser.swift

TODO: HttpServer, HttpResponse.

best,
dk

[johnno1962]

Hi @glock45 if you’re looking for dispatch_async try https://github.com/johnno1962/NSLinux

[damian-kolakowski]

hi @johnno1962

Correct me If I am wrong ? Every time I call dispatch_async the library creates a new thread and after the run all the resources are released ( which is absolutely fine for me ) ?

best
dk

[gabebear]

It does look to spin a thread every time... I'm confused why @johnno1962 code would be better than the dispatch_async provided by Apple/Swift? https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/8d9ef80304d7b36e13619ea50e6e76f3ec9221ba/test/ClangModules/Dispatch_test.swift

I admittedly haven't used swift on Linux yet, but have been using GCD via ObjC on Linux for a long while now. http://chris.mowforth.com/posts/2011/installing-grand-central-dispatch-on-linux/

[julien-c]

I've put in some work on the Linux support of swifter (in #72, #73, #74, #75).

One of the last roadblocks on getting basic support (first of all, getting to something that builds 😄) is the locking that happens in HttpServer. My question is: is it really needed? If it is, is there something equivalent that we could use in Glibc?

[C0deH4cker]

@julien-c How about something like https://gist.github.com/kristopherjohnson/d12877ee9a901867f59?

[C0deH4cker]

Really it boils down to just using a NSLock and doing:

nslock.lock()
closure()
nslock.unlock()

[julien-c]

@C0deH4cker Your link seems to 404

[damian-kolakowski]

@julien-c Thanks for a great work !!!!! I pushed two changes more and finally we compile on Linux ( with NSLinux from @johnno1962 ). I have not run it yet xD This tension kills me xD

@C0deH4cker thanks for NSLock ! I've update Swifter. I've been thinking about ( dispatch_semaphore ) since it's more friendly for GCD environment we have.

[C0deH4cker]

@julien-c Whoops, looks like I accidentally removed the last "9"! Try this one: https://gist.github.com/kristopherjohnson/d12877ee9a901867f599

[C0deH4cker]

I'll clone it and test on Ubuntu 14.04 now and let you know!

[damian-kolakowski]

( I build on Linux using "swift build" ).

[C0deH4cker]

Built both NSLinux.a and Swifter.a. How are you building the samples?

[julien-c]

Yay! Swifter server running on Ubuntu here: http://swift.circular.io:8080/ 🎉🎉

[julien-c]

The app's code is here: https://github.com/julien-c/example-package-dealer

Small variation on Apple's playing card dealer example. There's a pretty sweet /cards endpoint here: http://swift.circular.io:8080/cards

I had to unplug the JSON serialisation as NSJSONSerialization is unimplemented in Foundation so far.

[julien-c]

I've just posted this to Hacker News, if you wish to upvote 😄 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10718544

[C0deH4cker]

Got a demo running on my server as well! Took a little extra time as I didn't realize Azure firewalls new VMs from everything but SSH by default, not using iptables but external to the VM (and it seems that adding a new firewall rule is broken). Great work!

[johnno1962]

congrats @glock45. @gabebear You’re right NSLinux’s dispatch_async is pretty inefficient spinning a thread each call but libdispatch seems not to be available on Linux. It should clean up after each thread exits (calls pthread_detach)

[gabebear]

oops, interesting, I'd setup my ObjC Linux server long enough ago I'd forgotten how I'd done it. Went back and I've been using http://nickhutchinson.me/libdispatch/ (forgot I'd even installed it)

[segabor]

Hi,

Happy to see it runs on Linux at last. Here's my work that makes the example run also, with build script.

https://github.com/segabor/swifter/commit/918a751e1ef02cb0c13c72e20512a1465218fcc1
Cheers,

Gábor