Re: GLIB, libffi and Windows

[Kean Johnston <kean johnston gmail com>]

On 8/7/2011 8:16 PM, Dieter Verfaillie wrote:
> 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).
To answer my own question, there is other code in GLib (specifically in 
gio) that uses it.

Given that, I strong suggest that ffi is built as part of GLib like PCRE is 
for GRegex.