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Re: MSVC build


Hi,

(4:59), Mladen Turk wrote:
Hi,

I was sick of maintaining patches so I put the files on
http://code.google.com/p/libffi-msvc/

There is README.vc containing brief info on build.
Since majority of windows users don't usually need
GNU autotools the configure script I made uses awk
(any will do, and I even put one inside build/ from GNU Win32 project)

Only change from libffi sources is modified ffi.h.in to allow
compilation with older MSVC versions not having LLONG_MAX
so the merging would be trivial.

Makefile.vc creates both .dll and static library
(libffi-3.dll and libffi-3s.lib) unless configured differently.

I tried these patches on mswin32/MSVC9 and it works fine, though current github/atgreen/libffi/master doesn't work on my env. Moreover they doesn't need many Unix tools like current one. So I want to merge them.

Background:
We, Ruby people, want to build ruby and its bundled libraries with MSVC.
And we have a plan to replace our libffi-like library, named "ext/dl",
by libffi.
So we wan to build libffi with MSVC.

--
NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@airemix.jp>


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