[Swift-user] Swift 0.95 RC6 on Windows

[Mihael Hategan]

Hi again,

There were two problems:

One was compiling swift on Windows (i.e. running "ant dist" in the swift
directory on a windows machine). This is now fixed, but should not
affect you if you are using a binary distribution.

The second was an out-of-date _swiftwrap.vbs. I fixed this also and
committed to SVN. You can either compile 0.95 from sources, or,
alternatively, remove the following lines from libexec/_swiftwrap.vbs:

expectArg("k")
KICKSTART=getOptArg()

Things should work after that.

Regarding the new config mechanism and sysinfo="INTEL32::WINDOWS", on a
cursory look at the code, it does not seem to be supported. You will
have to use the old mechanism (i.e. sites.xml) for now.

Mihael


On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 16:09 -0700, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> We need to update the quick start guide. There is a missing bit if you
> are running on Windows. The details are here:
> http://swift-lang.org/guides/release-0.94/userguide/userguide.html#_running_on_windows
> 
> That said, I don't think we routinely test swift on Windows, and I
> haven't maintained it, but I will give it a shot and see if it needs any
> fixes.
> 
> Mihael
> 
> On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 17:18 -0500, Jonathan Ozik wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have two colleagues that are trying to run Swift 0.95 RC6 on Windows using the included swift.bat Windows script. They haven’t been successful yet. Trying the quickstart guide http://swift-lang.org/guides/quickstart.html and the hello.swift script under examples/swift/misc/ they see the following error:
> > 
> > Swift 0.95 RC6 swift-r7900 cog-r3908
> > RunID: 20140703-1433-7iq5x697
> > Progress: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:33:49-0500
> > 
> > Execution failed:
> > Exception in echo:
> >    Arguments: [hi]
> >    Host: localhost
> >    Directory: hello-20140703-1433-7iq5x697/jobs/6/echo-6nydmzsl
> >        exception @ swift-int.k, line: 530
> > Caused by: null
> > Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/bin/bash" (in directory "\var\tmp\hello-20140703-1433-7iq5x697"): CreateProcess error=267, The directory name is invalid
> > Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=267, The directory name is invalid
> > 
> > Any thoughts on this?
> > 
> > Jonathan
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