Re: glib(win32) without libffi

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 11:55 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote:
> One of the showstoppers for the win32/msvc build of GLib since 2.29 is the 
> dependency to libffi, which barely builds with msvc. In fact I was not able 
> to produce any working version with/for msvc6 (finally clashing runtime 
> versions).

Someone has *had* to have done this before.  Did you try asking
on the libffi list or anything?

> Are there any objections to include the new fallback implementation with 
> standard GLib?

It's a lot of code duplication in a *very* tricky code base.  See
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659881 for example.

Your code in a quick inspection looks like it only handles x86-32
Windows; what about Win64?  And it'd also need work for Windows/ARM,
etc.

Please - try harder to get libffi to build?