Re: -gui and ffcall/ffi

[Dennis Leeuw]

How is the status of the ffi support instead of ffcall?

I am in the process of upgrading my system to the latest and the
greatest of all dependancy packages for a new build from scratch test of
GNUstep.

Is the ffi support "stable" or should I still use ffcall?

Any pointers/help appreciated.

Greetings,

Dennis Leeuw


Thomas Cherryhomes wrote:
> 
> I had a noted absence from GNUstep, which was punctuated by GNUstep's 
> inability,
> for a time, to run on my Gentoo installation.
> 
> However, in the last few days, thanks to the help of Alex Malmberg, I have 
> found
> the answer to the problem:
> 
> -gui will not function properly without ffcall/ffi due to the use of 
> distributed
> objects to glue parts of -gui together.
> 
> we need to decide what to do with ffcall/ffi... is it required or not?
> Apparently, it seems that -base and -gui will compile just fine without 
> ffcall,
> but -gui apps will fail miserably when starting to load. (DO ports 
> invalidating
> because gdnc and gpbs can't function.)..
> 
> I suggested that ffcall should now be a requirement. Alex suggested that we
> should put a flag in base that allows one to override the requirement of 
> ffcall
> from base.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Thom
> 
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