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Re: [Chicken-users] sassy and libffi


From: felix winkelmann
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] sassy and libffi
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:17:00 +0100

Alternatively, you can try this patch with MSVC on x86
(please tell me whether it works).


cheers,
felix


On 11/16/05, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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."
>                           - anonymous entrepreneur
>
>
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