[Yhc] What does Yhc need (error, ffi.h not found)

[Thomas Shackell]

Hi Isaac,

can you build any program using ffi.h? e.g.

--- test.c ------------

#include <ffi.h>

int main(){ return 0; }

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gcc -c test.c


cheers

Tom


Isaac wrote:
> Trying scons on a freshly darcs'd yhc from today, I got an error, see:
> http://paste.lisp.org/display/22129
> or, to include the relevant parts of the output here:
> 
> gcc -I. -c -o src/runtime/BCKernel/external.o
> src/runtime/BCKernel/external.c
> In file included from src/runtime/BCKernel/types.h:5,
>                  from src/runtime/BCKernel/hashtable.h:4,
>                  from src/runtime/BCKernel/module.h:18,
>                  from src/runtime/BCKernel/external.h:4,
>                  from src/runtime/BCKernel/external.c:1:
> src/runtime/BCKernel/platform.h:103:17: ffi.h: No such file or directory
> scons: *** [src/runtime/BCKernel/external.o] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
> 
> On IRC, ndm suggested that "libffi" was needed; after "emerge libffi"
> the error still happened -- so, me being on gentoo-linux ppc, ndm on
> Windows, referred me to this list. I'm trying to find out what is
> actually needed to successfully compile Yhc (now, for me, at least).
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