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Thanks for sharing a simple setup that avoids SwiftPM. It is nice to have more options.

Swift has to shed the perception that it only works on apple platforms. I've found the the C++ interop to be pretty good for my computer vision use cases.

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What’s the advantage to avoiding SwiftPM? Is it just for simplicity or are there other advantages?

The build process requires you to have a C library built with its own dependencies. I don’t think it’s very common to do that with SwiftPM, hence it would require extra work for it to happen.

Yeah, it's nice to use a cross-platform, well established tool to actually build a Swift project.

CMake support started as a community project but was adopted officially by Apple after they started adopting some Swift in the compiler codebase – an extremely large and complex CMake project – so the support is extremely robust now.

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