This is patch to workaround the issue mentioned in this thread: http://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2012/msg00038.html The issue is not really that soft-float is broken, but rather the toolchain used is simply too old, not really because it is old-ABI, but too old a version of binutils; the .fpu directive, nor VFP instructions are supported in the assembler, hence even building of the VFP call/closure shims fail. This patch is sort of a least attempt to shield away the VFP stuff when __ARM_EABI__ is not defined. I apologize for such a token workaround, as it can probably be optimized a bit more, but I just feel it's not worthwhile; even GCC (recent versions) assumes such assembler features. Kyle, can you please see if the patch can work for you? If in case it doesn't, I might also suggest that you try to rebuild your toolchain with a newer binutils version (at least post circa 2005), which should at least not fail to build the library. Thanks, Chung-Lin 2012-03-06 Chung-Lin Tang * src/arm/ffi.c (ffi_call): Add __ARM_EABI__ guard around call to ffi_call_VFP(). (ffi_prep_closure_loc): Add __ARM_EABI__ guard around use of ffi_closure_VFP. * src/arm/sysv.S: Add __ARM_EABI__ guard around VFP code.