Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-05-20

Chapter 9. General Libraries

libffi-3.0.10

Introduction to libffi

The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run time.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.1 platform.

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Installation of libffi

Install libffi by running the following commands: 

patch -Np1 -i ../libffi-3.0.10-includedir-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

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Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libffi.{so,a}
Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

libffi.{so,a}

contains the libffi API functions.

Last updated on 2012-05-16 16:46:55 +0000