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Re: [Chicken-users] libffi in chicken-2.0
From: |
felix winkelmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] libffi in chicken-2.0 |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:58:03 +0200 |
On 7/18/05, Daniel B. Faken <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to build the new release with --with-libffi, but it appears
> that the configuration is messed up. (my compiler output is appended)
> Specifically, it seems that libffi is *not* compiled into libchicken,
> and so to use libchicken, libffi.a must be explicitly included when
> compiling any scheme(chicken) code (for use e.g. by C_apply()).
> Is this the desired behaviour? I couldn't find this documented
> anywhere.
> Also, it appears that the *config script* knows to use -lffi (try fgrep
> lffi * at top-level), but no one else does.
>
Have you installed libffi with "make install"? Which libffi version
are you using? On my system with libffi-1.20 I have a shared libffi.so,
which should be preferred over the libffi.a
cheers,
felix