Re: [Chicken-users] sassy and libffi

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:

> Hi!
>
> "sassy", Jonathan Kraut's x86 assembler is available
> as an egg now:
>
> http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/sassy.html
>  
I notice it requires libffi.  Anyone know how deeply tied to libffi it is?

As a Windows guy who'd like to get away with MinGW for everything, but 
probably can't because it's a VC++ world out there, I'm leery of this 
dependency.  I'm also leery of libffi itself as a project.  When I read 
mailing list archives and Google around for info about it, it seems like 
a project whose authors can't make up their minds about how it's going 
to be deployed.  They don't update their ancient webpage, one version is 
in the GCC sources, people feel it's a pain to pull out of the GCC 
sources so they bundle custom tarballs for their own projects (including 
Chicken), the libffi authors talk about releasing it standalone again... 
especially on Windows, it all sounds like a recipe for build disasters.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
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