Re: glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-30 Thread Fan Chun-wei
I'm not sure if this was mentioned before but I'm pretty sure Mozilla builds libffi using MSVC, so if you need reference project files, might be worth looking there? Or, looking at git, they may somehow cause the autotools to run msvcc? There's a msvcc.sh file in js/src/ctypes/libffi/msvcc.sh. Y

Re: glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-30 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 13:02 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: > See my other mail: I finally followed Colin's advice to try harder ;) > Not by contacting the libffi mailing list, but by using a build environment > I know better. Awesome! Glad you got it working. The libffi dependency allows us to avoi

Re: glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-30 Thread Hans Breuer
At 30.07.2012 04:55, Fan Chun-wei wrote: 於 2012/7/29 下午 09:57, Colin Walters 提到: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 15:24 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: I didn't say "no"; we're having a discussion. Realistically, so while I personally *do* care about Windows builds, I find cross-building with mingw a much saner

Re: glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-30 Thread Hans Breuer
[ Apparently my last mail from yesterday was scatched by an overly zealous virus scanner, now the original attachment is manually inlined ] At 29.07.2012 15:57, Colin Walters wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 15:24 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: Given that fixing the showstopper is not deemed to be use

Re: glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-29 Thread Fan Chun-wei
於 2012/7/29 下午 09:57, Colin Walters 提到: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 15:24 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: I didn't say "no"; we're having a discussion. Realistically, so while I personally *do* care about Windows builds, I find cross-building with mingw a much saner approach to making Free Software availab

Re: glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-29 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 15:24 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: > Given that fixing the showstopper is not deemed to be useful, I should > probably withhold my other fixes as well: I didn't say "no"; we're having a discussion. Realistically, so while I personally *do* care about Windows builds, I find cr

Re: glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-29 Thread Hans Breuer
At 29.07.2012 13:38, Colin Walters wrote: 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 (fi

Re: glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-29 Thread Colin Walters
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).

glib(win32) without libffi

2012-07-28 Thread Hans Breuer
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). But the current usage of libffi is limited to just two funct