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:

import PackageDescription

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

What works:

• Distribution using Swift Package Manager
• Single Threaded mode (CurrentThreadScheduler)
• Half of the 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 Swift.Error on Linux, so don't use errors, otherwise you can get weird crashes.