[squeak-dev] FFI on linux

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Mar 2 18:17:24 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:03:20PM +0000, John Thornborrow wrote:
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > On 02.03.2009, at 16:21, John Thornborrow wrote:
> >>
> >> Have you installed libffi?
> >
> > On x86 Linux, Squeak does not use libffi.
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> Is that the same for x86_64? I ask because both use the same kernel. :)
> 
> J.

FFI requires some updates in order to work on a 64 bit system:
  http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7237

The patches are on the Mantis report, but it is not a small change.

Dave




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