Alpaca Core Local SDK Swift Wrapper

Here we have both a high level and low level wrapper.

AlpacaCoreSwift

A high level wrapper. It's interface should feel as idiomatic Swift. Dict is passed as Dictionary.

It's implemented via...

CxxAlpacaCore

A low-level wrapper which exposes more C++ internals in the pseudo-structure AC.

Dict is accessible as AC.DictRoot and AC.DictRef in a manner similar to the C API.

Build

Only macOS is currently officially supported. We do run builds on other operating systems, but official support for them is not currently a priority.

• You need Swift 6.0.0 or later.
• On macOS only the clang compiler which comes with $ xcode-select --install can work.
• On non-macOS systems you need to configure with the clang compiler shipped with your swift installation.

Development environment

Here's the recommended way to setup a development environment for building this project:

First, cover the basic setup from ac-local Development environment doc

Aditionally:

• Arch Linux
  • $ pamac build swift-bin
  • Note that to build the swift wrapper, you will have to configure with -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/lib/swift/bin/clang++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/lib/swift/bin/clang
• Windows
  • Install Swift in any of the ways described here
  • Note that on you need to use the clang compiler shipped with your swift installation
  • Also note that installing the Swift will add clang++ to your system path. If you also use other clang compilers, you will have to juggle the system path around accorting to what you currently need.