Release Swift compiler for Cygwin · tinysun212/swift-windows

System Requirement

This archive is an EXPERIMENTAL build on Cygwin 64bit.
To compiling Swift source, you should install Cygwin 2.5.2 64bit.
Addition to the default Cygwin packages, you should select some packages.
1. Devel folder: clang (3.7.1-1) - C/C++ compiler frontend based on LLVM
2. Libs folder: libiconv-devel (1.14-3) - Unicode iconv() implementation
3. Libs folder: libicu-devel (57.1-1) - IBM Internationalization Components for Unicode

Download and extract swift-cygwin-20160913-bin.tar.gz.
Add the Swift toolchain to your path.
export PATH=$PATH:(your swift directory)/bin

You can try to run the Package Manger.
(swift test does not work due to some bugs.)
ex)

  $ mkdir Hello
  $ cd Hello
  $ swift package init --type executable
  $ swift build
  $ .build/debug/Hello

You can run in immediate mode.
ex) swift Hello.swift

You can compile and run with dynamic library
ex)

  Compile
    swiftc Hello.swift

  Run
    Hello

You can try to run a Foundation application
ex)

  Compile
    swiftc TestFoundation.swift -I /usr/include

  Run
    TestFoundation