RxSwift/Documentation/Linux.md

Linux

We've made a proof of concept for Linux.

To test it, create Package.swift in your test directory with the following content:

This will start to work once we release 2.0.0 because it looks like spm has some issues dealing with prerelease versions. Running swift build inside RxSwift repository will work on Linux.

import PackageDescription

let package = Package(
    name: "MyShinyUnicornCat",
    dependencies: [
        .Package(url: "https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxSwift.git", Version(2, 0, 0))
    ]
)

What does work:

• Distribution using Swift Package Manager
• Single Threaded mode (CurrentThreadScheduler)
• Half of unit tests are passing.
• Projects that can be compiled and "used":
  • RxSwift
  • RxBlocking
  • RxTests

What doesn't work:

• Schedulers - because they are dependent on https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch and it still hasn't been released
• Multithreading - still no access to c11 locks
• For some reason it looks like Swift compiler generates wrong code when using ErrorType on Linux, so don't use errors, otherwise you can get weird crashes.