Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Build broken (Re: [Pyobjc-checkins] CVS: pyobjc setup.py,1.19,1.20)

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> Libffi is a library for dynamicly building stackframes and calling
> existing C functions. One of my earlier checkins today added code
> that uses libffi to call the superclass implementation of methods and
> to build the entries in the method tables of Objective-C classes.
> This allows us to do away with Modules/objc/register.m, a really
> enormous file. The library is also necessary if you want to add
> methods to pure Objective-C classes (which is simular to writing
> Objective-C categories in Python).

[...googling, checking the page at redhat.com...]
Oooh, way cool! calldll done right! Must Have Python Interface ;-)

> The main disadvantage of libffi is that it is a 3th party library
> that is not easily available: The current version is only available
> as part of the GCC sourcetree.

You wrote in libffi.txt:

> To enable libFFI support:
> - Build and install libffi 2.x, this is only available from a source
> distribution of GCC.  Do NOT use the version from sources.redhat.com,
> it doesn't support MacOS X at all.  The version I used (december
> 2002) doesn't allow you to build a shared library on MacOSX. This is
> not a problem, we don't want one anyway.

Do you have a more specific pointer where you got your copy?

Just