Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> writes:
[...] | --with-dffi is only useful when combined with --enable-shared, because the | later allows finding out shared libraries, loading them and retrieving pointers | to their C functions, which DFFI may then use as described before. | | --with-dffi is only needed when you want to do FFI operations from the command | line or interpreted code. OK, thanks! | As for the coexistence of both libraries, my feeling is that libffi is a very | quickly evolving library. Now, I only have libffi as shipped with Debian and | with OS X and they more or less look the same, and indeed ECL builds just fine | in both platforms with --with-dffi enabled. Cygwin and mingw may be either | shipping a much older or much newer version, or a version with some | functionality removed due to security reasons (arbitrary function calls? | callbacks?), I really can not tell. The ffi.h (located in GCC internal directories) with my copy of MinGW says version 2.1 in comment. I don't see any CPP macro version or something of the sort in the header file, so it would be more involved to prevent this kind of puzzling link failure. It sucks to have a library without a mean to report version. -- Gaby ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
