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I'm pleased to announce experimental support for Swift compiling to Mac OS 9.

please don't take down my server; I don't know how much git clone it'll handle

You can see BitPaint running in the middle, and the Classic version of Apple System Profiler showing that yes, this is Mac OS 9.2.
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You wot mate?

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Things to do while self-isolating...

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Not just a joke, but definitely worth the read, full of tidbits also for folks who aren't interested in Mac OS 9 but things like porting Swift to bare metal (embedded) targets!

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Ooh, shiney! It even has MPW integration.

Now if only Katrina hadn't eaten all of my classic Macs...

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But does it have a MrC importer?

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It can read (most) MPW header files, is that good enough? :-P

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@jrose, so when do we get swift-corelibs-libdispatch and swift-corelibs-foundation on it? :rofl:

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I guess you mean "UINT_MAX"? :slight_smile:

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Well, that's one way to pass time during the quarantine I suppose.

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Can you make it for System 6 next? My IIfx is hungry

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Your IIfx will run System 7.6.1, which makes a port much more feasible because you can use CFM-68K [1]. Good luck!

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ DTS @ Apple

[1] The alternative being ASLM, and you don’t want to go there, trust me (-:

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For anyone who actually wants to try, it'll be a bit harder because

  • LLVM doesn't have a 68k backend
  • Nor something that matches the Mac 68k object file format (which I had trouble finding a reference for, eventually found here)

Maybe someday!

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Maybe you could generate 68K code directly from SIL. Then add a @segment("...") attribute to handle classic 68K code segments. (Unironically, something like that might also be of interest to people using swift-for-wasm, where you might also want to be able to lazily stream in "segments" of code on demand as you load different parts of a webapp…)

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LLVM doesn't have a 68k backend

Wow, that makes me very sad.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ DTS @ Apple

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I think it does now. LLVM Clang Mainlines Support For The Motorola 68000 Series (m68k) - Phoronix

Someone has already managed to make Rust output 68000 binaries.

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