GNUStepSwiftBridge: Swift Interface for GNUStep's AppKit Implementation
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MrJulia
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Summary
This article describes GNUStepSwiftBridge, a Swift interface for GNUStep's version of AppKit that enables Swift developers to work with the GNUStep desktop environment. The project requires installation of OnFlapp's GNUStep Desktop on Debian along with Swift 5.8.1. The article provides technical setup instructions, notes about file system layout assumptions, and mentions current limitations with resource file copying. It appears to be a technical documentation/README style article for a GitHub repository focused on bridging Swift with the GNUStep framework.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThis project is a Swift interface for GNUStep's version of AppKit.
This project assumes that you are running OnFlapp's GNUStep Desktop project.
To build, you need to install GNUStep Desktop on Debian, then install Swift version 5.8.1 on Debian.
I haven't yet figured out how to configure Swift to copy the files into a folder called Resources within the same folder holds the built Swift executable.
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