building with msvc

building with msvc

[Aaron Patterson]

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Hi everyone!

Are there instructions for building libffi on windows using msvc?  I see
it mentioned once in the readme, but I'm not sure what I need on my
system in order to run configure and the msvcc.sh shell script.

I'd like to build the .dll and the .lib file.  Any hints would be
greatly appreciated!

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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Re: building with msvc

[Timothy Wall]

You should be able to just run configure under cygwin with CC=path/to/msvcc.sh, although my first attempt configuring that way failed on win64 so I went back to my original script.

I wrote the adapter script originally for the JNA project.  I just recently had to make some tweaks to my original script to convert paths (using cygpath), since apparently the windows path-fixing has been removed from configure.  If you're using cygwin you usually have to patch up the unix-style paths into something msvc understands.

My updated script is here: http://java.net/projects/jna/sources/svn/show/trunk/jnalib/native/cc.sh (also ld.sh).  I just added path-fixing, I didn't back-port any of the other tweaks that may have gone into msvcc.sh.  I just successfully configured and built using CC=cc.sh and LD=ld.sh, but that's on win64.  You may have to make some modifications for 32-bit windows, I've not tried an msvc build on win32 for a long time.


On May 31, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> Are there instructions for building libffi on windows using msvc?  I see
> it mentioned once in the readme, but I'm not sure what I need on my
> system in order to run configure and the msvcc.sh shell script.
> 
> I'd like to build the .dll and the .lib file.  Any hints would be
> greatly appreciated!
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Patterson
> http://tenderlovemaking.com/