[SR-9038] Swift Syntax requires the use of dynamic linking

[swift-ci]

Previous ID	SR-9038
Radar	None
Original Reporter	tannernelson (JIRA User)
Type	Bug

Additional Detail from JIRA

Votes	4
Component/s	SwiftSyntax
Labels	Bug
Assignee	None
Priority	Medium

md5: 9bbab7716cc05fa62a1f9472abf24ed4

Issue Description:

Currently Swift Syntax vends a dynamic product (https://github.com/apple/swift-syntax/blob/master/Package.swift#L8).

This creates issues when trying to link a static executable that uses Swift Syntax. Is there any way this could be changed to a normal product?

[swift-ci]

Comment by tanner0101 (JIRA)

#19

[MaxDesiatov]

As far as I understand, Swift Syntax still dynamically links to lib_InternalSwiftSyntaxParser.dylib on macOS, which leads to issues such as this SwiftDocOrg/swift-doc#197 It also probably links dynamically to a similar .so file on Linux?

[keith]

swiftlang/swift#36151

[ahoppen]

rdar://90554334

[CodaFi]

This is no longer true as of #616. You can now consume SwiftSyntax and the SwiftParser as static libraries without any superfluous dependencies.