Status
======
-libffi-3.0.12 was released on XXXXXXX. Check the libffi web page for
-updates: <URL:http://sourceware.org/libffi/>.
+libffi-4?? was released on TBD. Check the libffi web
+page for updates: <URL:http://sourceware.org/libffi/>.
What is libffi?
For specific configuration details and testing status, please
refer to the wiki page here:
- http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.0.11
+ http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.2
At the time of release, the following basic configurations have been
tested:
|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------|
| Architecture | Operating System | Compiler |
|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------|
+| AArch64 (ARM64) | iOS | Clang |
| AArch64 | Linux | GCC |
| Alpha | Linux | GCC |
| Alpha | Tru64 | GCC |
+| ARC | Linux | GCC |
| ARM | Linux | GCC |
| ARM | iOS | GCC |
| AVR32 | Linux | GCC |
| HPPA | HPUX | GCC |
| IA-64 | Linux | GCC |
| M68K | FreeMiNT | GCC |
+| M68K | Linux | GCC |
| M68K | RTEMS | GCC |
+| M88K | OpenBSD/mvme88k | GCC |
+| Meta | Linux | GCC |
| MicroBlaze | Linux | GCC |
| MIPS | IRIX | GCC |
| MIPS | Linux | GCC |
| MIPS | RTEMS | GCC |
| MIPS64 | Linux | GCC |
-| PowerPC 32-bit | AIX 6.1.0.0 | IBM XL C/C++, V11.1 |
-| PowerPC 32-bit | AIX 7.1.1.0 | IBM XL C/C++, V11.1 |
+| Moxie | Bare metal | GCC |
+| Nios II | Linux | GCC |
+| OpenRISC | Linux | GCC |
+| PowerPC 32-bit | AIX | IBM XL C |
+| PowerPC 64-bit | AIX | IBM XL C |
| PowerPC | AMIGA | GCC |
| PowerPC | Linux | GCC |
| PowerPC | Mac OSX | GCC |
| PowerPC | FreeBSD | GCC |
-| PowerPC64 | Linux | GCC |
+| PowerPC 64-bit | FreeBSD | GCC |
+| PowerPC 64-bit | Linux ELFv1 | GCC |
+| PowerPC 64-bit | Linux ELFv2 | GCC |
| S390 | Linux | GCC |
| S390X | Linux | GCC |
| SPARC | Linux | GCC |
| SPARC64 | FreeBSD | GCC |
| SPARC64 | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
| TILE-Gx/TILEPro | Linux | GCC |
+| VAX | OpenBSD/vax | GCC |
| X86 | FreeBSD | GCC |
+| X86 | GNU HURD | GCC |
| X86 | Interix | GCC |
| X86 | kFreeBSD | GCC |
| X86 | Linux | GCC |
| X86-64 | Linux/x32 | GCC |
| X86-64 | OpenBSD | GCC |
| X86-64 | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
+| X86-64 | Windows/Cygwin | GCC |
| X86-64 | Windows/MingW | GCC |
| Xtensa | Linux | GCC |
|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------|
"configure" program found in the root directory of the libffi source
distribution.
+If you're building libffi directly from version control, configure won't
+exist yet; run ./autogen.sh first.
+
You may want to tell configure where to install the libffi library and
header files. To do that, use the --prefix configure switch. Libffi
will install under /usr/local by default.
Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler. In this case, use the msvcc.sh
wrapper script during configuration like so:
-path/to/configure CC=path/to/msvcc.sh LD=link CPP=\"cl -nologo -EP\"
+path/to/configure CC=path/to/msvcc.sh CXX=path/to/msvcc.sh LD=link CPP="cl -nologo -EP"
+
+For 64-bit Windows builds, use CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64" and
+CXX="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64". You may also need to specify --build
+appropriately.
+
+It is also possible to build libffi on Windows platforms with the LLVM
+project's clang-cl compiler, like below:
-For 64-bit Windows builds, use CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64".
-You may also need to specify --build appropriately. When building with MSVC
-under a MingW environment, you may need to remove the line in configure
-that sets 'fix_srcfile_path' to a 'cygpath' command. ('cygpath' is not
-present in MingW, and is not required when using MingW-style paths.)
+path/to/configure CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -clang-cl" CXX="path/to/msvcc.sh -clang-cl" LD=link CPP="clang-cl -EP"
+
+When building with MSVC under a MingW environment, you may need to
+remove the line in configure that sets 'fix_srcfile_path' to a 'cygpath'
+command. ('cygpath' is not present in MingW, and is not required when
+using MingW-style paths.)
For iOS builds, the 'libffi.xcodeproj' Xcode project is available.
Configure has many other options. Use "configure --help" to see them all.
Once configure has finished, type "make". Note that you must be using
-GNU make. You can ftp GNU make from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu.
+GNU make. You can ftp GNU make from ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/make .
To ensure that libffi is working as advertised, type "make check".
This will require that you have DejaGNU installed.
History
=======
-See the ChangeLog files for details.
-
-3.0.12 XXX-XX-XX
+See the git log for details at http://github.com/atgreen/libffi.
+
+4.0 TBD
+ New API in support of GO closures.
+
+3.2.1 Nov-12-14
+ Build fix for non-iOS AArch64 targets.
+
+3.2 Nov-11-14
+ Add C99 Complex Type support (currently only supported on
+ s390).
+ Add support for PASCAL and REGISTER calling conventions on x86
+ Windows/Linux.
+ Add OpenRISC and Cygwin-64 support.
+ Bug fixes.
+
+3.1 May-19-14
+ Add AArch64 (ARM64) iOS support.
+ Add Nios II support.
+ Add m88k and DEC VAX support.
+ Add support for stdcall, thiscall, and fastcall on non-Windows
+ 32-bit x86 targets such as Linux.
+ Various Android, MIPS N32, x86, FreeBSD and UltraSPARC IIi
+ fixes.
+ Make the testsuite more robust: eliminate several spurious
+ failures, and respect the $CC and $CXX environment variables.
+ Archive off the manually maintained ChangeLog in favor of git
+ log.
+
+3.0.13 Mar-17-13
+ Add Meta support.
+ Add missing Moxie bits.
+ Fix stack alignment bug on 32-bit x86.
+ Build fix for m68000 targets.
+ Build fix for soft-float Power targets.
+ Fix the install dir location for some platforms when building
+ with GCC (OS X, Solaris).
+ Fix Cygwin regression.
+
+3.0.12 Feb-11-13
+ Add Moxie support.
Add AArch64 support.
Add Blackfin support.
Add TILE-Gx/TILEPro support.
- Add Microblaze support.
+ Add MicroBlaze support.
Add Xtensa support.
Add support for PaX enabled kernels with MPROTECT.
Add support for native vendor compilers on
Solaris and AIX.
+ Work around LLVM/GCC interoperability issue on x86_64.
3.0.11 Apr-11-12
Lots of build fixes.
- Add Amiga newer MacOS support.
Add support for variadic functions (ffi_prep_cif_var).
Add Linux/x32 support.
Add thiscall, fastcall and MSVC cdecl support on Windows.
Authors & Credits
=================
-libffi was originally written by Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>.
+libffi was originally written by Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>.
The developers of the GNU Compiler Collection project have made
innumerable valuable contributions. See the ChangeLog file for
ia64 Hans Boehm
m32r Kazuhiro Inaoka
m68k Andreas Schwab
+m88k Miod Vallat
microblaze Nathan Rossi
mips Anthony Green, Casey Marshall
mips64 David Daney
+moxie Anthony Green
+nios ii Sandra Loosemore
+openrisc Sebastian Macke
pa Randolph Chung, Dave Anglin, Andreas Tobler
powerpc Geoffrey Keating, Andreas Tobler,
David Edelsohn, John Hornkvist
sh64 Kaz Kojima
sparc Anthony Green, Gordon Irlam
tile-gx/tilepro Walter Lee
+vax Miod Vallat
x86 Anthony Green, Jon Beniston
x86-64 Bo Thorsen
xtensa Chris Zankel
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