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The client can provide a Swift SDK manifest path along with a triple in the run destination to synthesize a Swift Build SDK. This serves as a fallback for cases where Swift Build cannot match an SDK for it.

Note that in this first implementation the platform is hard coded to webassembly, and so only SDK's that align with WASM, such as static linking of compiler runtime pieces, and some Unix semantics will work.

The client can provide a Swift SDK manifest path along with a
triple in the run destination to synthesize a Swift Build SDK.
This serves as a fallback for cases where Swift Build cannot
match an SDK for it.

Note that in this first implementation the platform is hard
coded to webassembly, and so only SDK's that align with WASM,
such as static linking of compiler runtime pieces, and some
Unix semantics will work.
"SWIFT_RESOURCE_DIR": .plString(swiftResourceDir.str), // Resource dir for compiling Swift
"CLANG_RESOURCE_DIR": .plString(clangResourceDir.str), // Resource dir for linking C/C++/Obj-C
"SDKROOT": .plString(sysroot.str),
"OTHER_LDFLAGS": .plArray(["$(OTHER_SWIFT_FLAGS)"]), // The extra swift compiler settings in JSON are intended to go to the linker driver too
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If we need to include swift flags here, we should use extraSwiftCompilerSettings instead of $(OTHER_SWIFT_FLAGS), because $(OTHER_SWIFT_FLAGS) may include other project/command line flags which are only intended for the compiler

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Looking good! :)

Left another round of feedback.

{
Name = CLANG_SDKROOT_LINKER_INPUT;
Type = Path;
DefaultValue = "$(SDKROOT)";
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I think this one needs to be $(SYSROOT:default=$(SDKROOT))

{
Name = SWIFTC_SDKROOT_LINKER_INPUT;
Type = Path;
DefaultValue = "$(SYSROOT:default=$(SDKROOT))";
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This doesn't seem right -- based on discussions around how the various platform-targeting flags would work, the consensus was:

  • When targeting platforms where Swift SDK and sysroot are the same (Apple platforms), use -sdk only
  • When targeting Windows, use -sdk only since the sysroot concept doesn't exist
  • For all others, use both -sdk and -sysroot

Wasm falls into bullet 3, so I think the sdk flag needs to be based on $(SDKROOT), while the $(SYSROOT) var would be used to pass -sysroot. That means you should be able to remove this override and use the one from the base Ld.xcspec.

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The UnixLd.xcspec is getting in the way between Ld.xcspec and this WasmLd.xcspec. If I remove this then it will prevent it from adding the required "-sdk" argument to the linker driver.

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The point is that the DefaultValue here is not correct -- SYSROOT should not influence the -sdk flag. Only SDKROOT should. Meaning you need this change:

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DefaultValue = "$(SYSROOT:default=$(SDKROOT))";
DefaultValue = "$(SDKROOT)";

and which consequently makes this equivalent to the base definition.

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Thanks, I've adjusted the WasmLD.xcspec to consider only the SDKROOT, and not the SYSROOT.

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You should still remove the SWIFTC_SDKROOT_LINKER_INPUT definition from WasmLd.xcspec though, since it's now identical to the base definition in Ld.xcspec and is therefore a no-op.

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There's still the interim UnixLd.xcspec that interferes, so this is needed to override that until it is fixed.

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Ahh, I missed that. That is certainly a bit confusing that the Ld.xcspec setting is passing -sdk while the same setting in UnixLd.xcspec is passing -sysroot. Something there seems not quite right; I think we need to have two settings in UnixLd.xcspec, one passing -sdk and one passing -sysroot, since that model applies to all Unix-like platforms (except Apple).

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This is looking good to me, I think it's pretty much good as a first step to land once we get some basic tests in place. Left one minor comment/question

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Looking pretty good, mostly some style feedback plus a small blocking issue around the Linux triples.

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@swift-ci please test

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The only remaining feedback I have so far are the two unresolved comments related to SYSROOT/SDKROOT/-sdk/-sysroot.

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