Re: building gnustep-base-1.8.0 on Max OS X 10.3.2

[Riccardo Mottola]

on 3/18/04 1:08 AM, Nicola Pero at nicola@brainstorm.co.uk wrote:

> 
>> Will libffi be required for libobjc or will you be able to swap it out
>> for another library (like ffcall)? libffi isn't currently ported to
>> Darwin/ix86 for instance (at least in gcc 3.3)
> 
> libobjc runs on many more platforms than libffi, so strictly requiring
> libffi for libobjc would prevent you from using it on many platforms where
> you can currently use it.
I agree, I currently need libffi on some platforms and it jsut doesn't
compile there. It is pporly maintained, it doesn't seem to compile with 2.95
compilers (and related binutils, which is probably the issue) and in the
whole the package seems badly maintained.

SCO is supported:) but IRIX is stopped at irix5 (stone age old... more than
6 years or so). Sparcs aren't working and OpenBSD is poort. It is  required
for JavaVM's...
 
> Of course it's doubtful that forwarding works on all those platforms using
> libobjc's built-in implementation ... :-)
> 
> But Andrew's point is good - where libffi is available from the GCC
> installation itself, it would be good for libobjc to use it.
That is nice, but lets not limit to libffi.

Just my 2cents

-R