ffcall

[Ken Brown]

On 2/18/2015 2:28 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 13:49 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I've been trying to adopt Reini's packages that have not yet been ported to
>> 64-bit Cygwin and that have some connection to packages I already maintain.  The
>> next one on my list is ffcall.
>
> I'm guessing this is for clisp?

Right.  It might be possible to build a rudimentary version of clisp on x86_64 
without ffcall, but I don't know yet.

>> Unfortunately, the source has a lot of assembler code in it, so I will almost
>> certainly need help from someone well versed in x86_64 assembly language.  And
>> the libffcall project appears to be dead upstream, so I'm not going to get help
>> there.
>
> Unless you can find a patch somewhere for Win64 support.

Not that I've been able to find.

>> I have no idea how hard this will be.  The code has been ported to x86_64 Linux,
>> so there's at least a starting point.
>
> Only to a point, there are significant differences:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/MinGW%20x64%20Software%
> 20convention/

Ken