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Mark
"d.henman" <dhen...@gmail.com> writes:
> Ludovic and Mark,
> thanks for answering my query.
>
>> The configure script checks for libffi via the pkg-config tool.
>>
>> What does ‘pkg-config libffi --cflags --libs’ return on your machine?
>
> $ pkg-config libffi --cflags --libs
> Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libffi.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'libffi' found
>
> I'm looking for information at cygwin and also
> about gettnig the ffi.h file as Mark suggested.
>
>
> Regards
"d.henman" <dhen...@gmail.com> writes:
> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote:
>> > $ configure
>> > ....
>> > checking for LIBFFI... configure: error: Package requirements (libffi)
>> > were not met:
>> >
>> > No package 'libffi' found
>>
>> A few questions:
>> * Do you have "ffi.h" on your system? If so, where?
>
> I found ffi.h in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/include/ffi.h
>
>> * Do you have "libffi.pc" on your system? If so, where?
> .. but there is no libffi.pc
>
>> * Do you have the 'pkg-config' command installed?
> yes
>
>> I'm not very familiar with cygwin, so maybe someone else could help you
>> more efficiently, but if you have the 'pkg-config' command and can find
>> "libffi.pc", then it might be sufficient to do (before running
>> ./configure):
>>
>> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/DIRECTORY_THAT_CONTAINS_LIBFFI_DOT_PC
>>
>> Otherwise, as a fall-back plan: if you can find "ffi.h", then it might
>> be sufficient to do (before running ./configure):
>>
>> export LIBFFI_CFLAGS=-I/DIRECTORY_THAT_CONTAINS_FFI_DOT_H
>> export LIBFFI_LIBS=-lffi
>
> I'll try this on the morrow.
>
>> Please let us know how this works out.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mark
