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Re: Win64 port status
- From: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
- To: "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:32:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: Win64 port status
- References: <49469A80.9020806@gmail.com> <49477E6C.3070702@redhat.com>
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> NS wrote:
>> I am an admin of the mingw-w64.sf.net project, and we are looking to be
>> able to support gcj/libjava for GCC. This depends on libffi, which
>> means that libffi has to be ported to win64 to support libjava to
>> support GCC (don't you love dependencies?)
>>
>> What is the current status of that port?
>>
>> I have found this patch:
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2008/msg00125.html
>>
>> It needs to be updated (at the least, configure needs to be regenerated)
>> to work with current cvs HEAD as of a few minutes ago.
>
> Right. You should assume that configure will always be regenerated
> when applying a patch; this is usual.
The patch patched configure, so I thought it wasn't necessary.
>> Past that, it
>> doesn't compile due to errors in src/debug.c. Can anyone provide
>> assistance with this effort?
>
> What's the problem?
I was able to contact the original author, and he provided an update.
Now I just need to figure out how to run the test suite, and we should
be able to get the support we need. Watch this space for updates :)
:)