SDK alternatives?

sphauck · November 12, 2021, 2:59pm

The .NET SDK is stale and fractured …
I offered to help fund a consolidation and re-write on Github but no one was interested.
With MAUI launching Is there an alternative SDK (free or paid) that I can use with Back4App / Parse servers ?

Thanks

cbaker6 · November 12, 2021, 4:09pm

I believe the Swift SDK should be able to build for windows (if it currently doesn’t build, it probably just needs some tweaks):

This link discusses the current progress:

Building Swift on Windows:

github.com

apple/swift/blob/main/docs/WindowsBuild.md

# Building Swift on Windows

Visual Studio 2017 or newer is needed to build Swift on Windows. The free Community edition is sufficient to build Swift.

The commands below (with the exception of installing Visual Studio) must be entered in the "**x64 Native** Tools Command Prompt for VS2017" (or VS2019, VS2019 Preview depending on the Visual Studio that you are using) in the Start Menu. This sets environment variables to select the correct target platform.

## Install dependencies

### Visual Studio

An easy way to get most of the tools to build Swift is using the [Visual Studio installer](https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/). This command installs all needed Visual Studio components as well as Python, Git, CMake and Ninja:

```
curl.exe -sOL https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_community.exe
vs_community ^
  --add Component.CPython3.x64 ^
  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Git ^
  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATL ^
  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CMake.Project ^
  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 ^

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Swift on Windows forum:

Being transparent, I don’t know what the .NET SDK was used for in the past, so I’m just mentioning the Swift SDK as a possibility.

sphauck · November 12, 2021, 5:20pm

VERY interesting … thanks!

cbaker6 · November 30, 2021, 6:22pm

Update: as if version 2.3.1, the Swift SDK CI now builds and tests against Windows with everything passing. If you decide to use it on Windows and run into issues, feel free to open a PR. In addition, I recommend looking through the API Documentation along with the Swift Playgrounds to get acquainted with the SDK.

CI Status of latest commit: