Windows equivalent of binaryTarget?

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I'm experimenting with a cross platform swift project that needs to link a 3rd party library. On macOS I've converted the headers and dylib into an xcframework and included it as a binaryTarget. This works great.

However, it doesn't seem as though xcframework supports windows targets, and binaryTarget doesn't support .lib/.dll directly.

What is the best way to create an executableTarget on windows that links to this dll?

Thanks,
mike

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IMO this should be an important area for SwiftPM to grow, and for now you may use a systemLibrary, and then configure the headers and linker options using a modulemap file. I suspect that an absolute lib path may be required for a portable 3rd-party library.

For DLLs you can add them to %Path% or manually copy them besides the product. This is currently not handled by SwiftPM.

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I would like to see this was well. Godot swift binaries take about 13 minutes to build on my 16 core Ryzen. Are there any developments on this?

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If you can deal with the unsafe flags (which will only be run if specifically building that target, I believe?)

.executableTarget(
    name: "MyGreatExecutable",
    linkerSettings: [
        .linkedLibrary("somelibrary", .when(platforms: [.windows])),
        .unsafeFlags(["-Xlinker", "-Lpath\\to\\somelibrary\\lib\\directory"], .when(platforms: [.windows])),
    ]
)

Then make sure to include the 3rd party DLL or lib "side-by-side" with the exe when distributing your executable.

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