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SwiftJavaExtract sample apps fail to build on Windows

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Description

Commit hash: 4cf5605a03219fc7c99149020b0923c0a73a4f3c

Context:

I was trying to build the SwiftJavaExtractJNISampleApp and SwiftJavaExtractFFMSampleApp samples on Windows x86_64.

Both samples fail during their validation process on Windows.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Clone the repository:
    git clone https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java.git
    
  2. Run the JNI sample validation:
    cd swift-java/Samples/SwiftJavaExtractJNISampleApp
    ./ci-validate.sh
    
  3. Run the FFM sample validation:
    cd ../SwiftJavaExtractFFMSampleApp
    ./ci-validate.sh
    
  4. Observe that the validation does not complete successfully on Windows.

Result:

For example, one of the failures I encountered was while invoking the Gradle wrapper. A path such as:

/C:/Users/user/swift-java/gradlew

was passed to the Windows process and could not be executed correctly.

SwiftJavaExtractFFMSampleApp also fails during validation. For example, generated Swift output can end up with an invalid path containing an absolute Windows path as part of the filename:

C:/Users/user/swift-java/Samples/SwiftJavaExtractFFMSampleApp/.build/plugins/outputs/swiftjavaextractffmsampleapp/MySwiftLibrary/destination/JExtractSwiftPlugin/Sources/C:/Users/user/swift-java/Samples/SwiftJavaExtractFFMSampleApp/Sources/MySwiftLibrary/MySwiftClass+SwiftJava.swift

resulting in:

Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=512 "(null)"
UserInfo={
  NSUnderlyingError=Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=22 "Invalid argument",
  NSUserStringVariant=["Folder"],
  ...
}

Expected result:

The sample validation scripts should complete successfully on Windows x86_64.

$ swift --version

Swift version 6.3.3 (swift-6.3.3-RELEASE)
Target: x86_64-unknown-windows-msvc
Build config: +assertions

Operating system: Windows x86_64

$ uname -a

MINGW64_NT-10.0-26200 DESKTOP-C8619AE 3.6.9-b4195d69.x86_64 2026-06-06 17:49 UTC x86_64 Msys

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Research direction

Start by running ci-validate.sh in Samples/SwiftJavaExtractJNISampleApp and Samples/SwiftJavaExtractFFMSampleApp on Windows, then inspect how each script invokes the Gradle wrapper and handles generated Swift paths. Done means both sample validation scripts complete successfully on Windows x86_64 without malformed executable or generated-source paths.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, swift
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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