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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ffcall
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 22:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E50F86.50704@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424287689.3460.19.camel@cygwin.com>

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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-18 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-18 18:49 ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-18 19:28 ` ffcall Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-02-18 20:08   ` ffcall Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-18 22:41     ` ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-19  9:38       ` ffcall Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-19 15:43         ` ffcall Reini Urban
2015-02-19 16:45           ` ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-19 17:18             ` ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-19 17:44               ` ffcall Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-19 18:47                 ` ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-19 19:46               ` ffcall Reini Urban
2015-02-19 22:30                 ` ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-21 10:03                   ` ffcall David Billinghurst
2015-02-21 17:16                     ` ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-21 20:43                     ` ffcall Achim Gratz
2015-02-21 21:04                       ` ffcall Achim Gratz
2015-02-23 11:38                         ` ffcall Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-23 17:48                           ` ffcall Achim Gratz
2015-02-23 20:32                             ` ffcall Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-23 20:56                               ` ffcall Achim Gratz
2015-02-21  3:45                 ` ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-21 12:59                   ` ffcall Reini Urban
2015-02-21 17:20                     ` ffcall Ken Brown
2015-02-18 22:17   ` Ken Brown [this message]

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