Building libffi with MSVC

[John Emmas]

On 6 Dec 2012, at 07:21, Nathan Rajlich wrote:

> 
> I maintain node-ffi, a node.js wrapper for libffi. For that we use the
> GYP build system, which produces MSVS project files. It may be able to
> suit your needs without getting Cygwin or MSYS involved.
> 

Thanks Nathan.  I'm not averse to trying MSYS but if possible, I'd prefer to keep Cygwin out of the equation.  I tried Cygwin a few years ago and to be fair, I found it pretty good.  However, the main support developer was extraordinarily unhelpful and I ended up kicking Cygwin into the long grass.  To be absolutely honest, I'd prefer it to stay there!

How do I install GYP?  It looks like the kind of thing that should be available in binary form - but all I could find were the source files.

John