Re: Win64 port status

[NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> NS wrote:
>> I am an admin of the mingw-w64.sf.net project, and we are looking to be
>> able to support gcj/libjava for GCC.  This depends on libffi, which
>> means that libffi has to be ported to win64 to support libjava to
>> support GCC (don't you love dependencies?)
>>
>> What is the current status of that port?
>>
>> I have found this patch:
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2008/msg00125.html
>>
>> It needs to be updated (at the least, configure needs to be regenerated)
>> to work with current cvs HEAD as of a few minutes ago.
>
> Right.  You should assume that configure will always be regenerated
> when applying a patch; this is usual.

The patch patched configure, so I thought it wasn't necessary.

>> Past that, it
>> doesn't compile due to errors in src/debug.c.  Can anyone provide
>> assistance with this effort?
>
> What's the problem?

I was able to contact the original author, and he provided an update.
Now I just need to figure out how to run the test suite, and we should
be able to get the support we need.  Watch this space for updates :)
:)