Nope - You need libffi for *compiling* the plugin (it's statically linked to
avoid redistribution of several DSOs and it's small anyways).

  Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Rudlof [mailto:sr at evolgo.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 11:40 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
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> Subject: Re: FFI (was: RE: [UPDATES] 30 new updates for 2.8alpha)
> 
> 
> Is it correct that I need a 'libffi' from cygnus in addition to the
> SqueakFFIPrims plugin to run this code under Linux?
> 
> From sqUnixFFI.c:
> 
> *   NOTES:  The Unix version of the FFI support code relies on libffi
> from
> *           http://sourceware.cygnus.com/libffi/
> 
> Stephan
> 
> 
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Raab, Andreas wrote:
> > 
> > > For those of you who want to play with this ...
> > 
> > Works like a charm on Linux:
> > 
> > "Say Hello in the console"
> > (ExternalLibraryFunction
> >         name: 'puts' module: nil callType: 0
> >         returnType: ExternalType long
> >         argumentTypes: {ExternalType string})
> >                 invokeWith: 'Hello World!'
> > 
> > or, the problem of getting the local hostname:
> > 
> > | buf |
> > buf _ ByteArray new: 256.
> > (ExternalLibraryFunction
> >         name: 'gethostname' module: nil callType: 0
> >         returnType: ExternalType long
> >         argumentTypes: {ExternalType char asPointerType.
> >                 ExternalType long})
> >         invokeWith: buf with: buf size.
> > (buf copyUpTo: 0) asString
> > 
> > This one seems to need a byte array - perhaps Strings may not be
> modified?
> > 
> > > I'll put out some more information on this soon.
> > 
> > Oh. I'll wait then ;-)
> > 
> >   -Bert-
> 
> -- 
> Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
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