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Are classes like WKwebview available in windows?
What about protocols and generics what are the limitations of using Swift on windows?

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WKWebView is only available for Darwin platforms (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, but not tvOS). Anything in AppKit or UIKit, CoreXXX, etc., for the most part, are Apple-private frameworks, and not part of open-source Swift. You can use Windows to build iOS/iPadOS applications using, for example, Mono/Xamarin, but, the applications have to run on Apple systems.

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The known limitations on Windows currently are:

  • static linking is not yet available
  • protocol conformance to a image external protocol does not work without setup under dynamic linking

Additional things that may or may not be important:

  • SPM does not support running arbitrary commands (which is useful for running foreign tools such as resgen and signtool)
  • Using an unbundled application manifest cannot be done with SPM (the file staging needs to be done manually)

If you are attempting to embed a browser instance, something like WebView2 might suit your needs: NuGet Gallery | Microsoft.Web.WebView2 1.0.2151.40

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