FFI (was: RE: [UPDATES] 30 new updates for 2.8alpha)

Stephan Rudlof sr at evolgo.de
Wed Feb 9 22:28:30 UTC 2000


Thank you, Andreas!

If libffi is small and probably free: How to include the _source_ code
into the Squeak distribution?

Main idea: Best is to have as less foreign code/libs outside the Squeak
distribution as possible.

Stephan


"Raab, Andreas" wrote:
> 
> Nope - You need libffi for *compiling* the plugin (it's statically linked to
> avoid redistribution of several DSOs and it's small anyways).

"Raab, Andreas" wrote:
> 
> > Header <ffi.h> doesn't exist on my system.
> 
> It's part of libffi - If you don't want to go through Cygnus site (I had
> sometimes trouble with it) grab the version from
> 
> http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/FFI/Unix/libffi-1.20.tar.gz
> 
>   Andreas

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