Re: GLIB, libffi and Windows

[Dieter Verfaillie <dieterv optionexplicit be>]

On 07/08/2011 19:33, Kean Johnston wrote:
> I am trying to compile master on Windows. gclosure.c doesn't compile due to 
> not having ffi.h. The presence of this is not tested in configure, and 
> there is no mention of it being a requirement in INSTALL. Having taken a 
> look at the offending file would it be a big loss if we just didn't provide 
> g_cclosure_marshal_generic() on Win32?

Yeah, for one thing, you'd be breaking PyGObject which
checks for libffi's presence and if it's there uses
g_cclosure_marshal_generic (in gobjectmodule.c).

Maybe you can reuse PyGObject's ffi detection method from
it's configure.ac for GLib instead?

mvg,
Dieter