1

The benchmark suite builds with CMake on OSX, but you have to use SwiftPM to build it on Linux.

It would be convenient if I could use CMake to build it on Linux, so that I don't have to build a whole toolchain with SwiftPM to run the benchmarks.

Is there any reason that I shouldn't add the ability to build the benchmarks with CMake on Linux?

(I have tried simply removing the condition that disables it on Linux. CMake complained CMake Error at benchmark/cmake/modules/SwiftBenchmarkUtils.cmake:25 (message): Error! Variable CLANG_EXEC is false, empty or not set.. I assume that I'll be able to fix this with more effort, but I decided I should ask whether this is a good idea before I spend the effort.)

2

@marcrasi We want to eventually eliminate the cmake build completely. It has always been a hack. I just haven't had the time to finish porting infrastructure/etc.

That being said, I would be fine with someone changing it to use compnerd's newer swift cmake stuff, but I would want other changes from who ever wanted to mess with that.

1 Like