Re: [MACTCL] Ffidl for Intel Mac/Universal binary?

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

Daniel A. Steffen wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> On 17/09/2008, at 17:17, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> 
>> Leopard comes with a universal binary of libffi, so I tried to build
>> Daniel Steffen's version 0.6 of ffidl (http://wiki.tcl.tk/1197). Running
>> "make" returns an error, to the effect that "ffidl hasn't been ported"
>> to  Apple/Intel. I'm not sure how hard it would be to patch ffidl to
>> build--has anyone done this successfully? I'd like to make use of
>> Daniel's ffidl code that lets you change the dock icon of a running Mac
>> application (see the wiki page for the sample)--I'd rather use that than
>> try to rewrite it to build with critcl or as a TEA extension.
> 
> 
> sources for universal ffidl on Leopard and later only are here:
>     http://www.categorifiedcoder.info/tcltk/ffidl/ffidl-0.6.1-darwin-9-univ.tar.gz 
> 
> this links against the system libffi.dylib and does not include libffi 
> sources.
> Note that the 64bit libffi in Leopard is buggy and makes the ffidl 
> testsuite crash on x86_64 (and probably ppc64 also).
> I have tried in the past to setup a built-in universal libffi for ffidl, 
> but got stalled because of the mess with 4 different forks of libffi out 
> there that are all subtly different and none of which (including the 
> libffi.dylib shipped with Leopard) passed the libffi testsuite 
> completely on all 4 architectures last time I tried...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 
Daniel,

Thank you! I've gotten it built

Kevin

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