On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Wayne Meissner <wmeissner@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Yep, should be changed, although in that specific case, it doesn't
> matter, since we no longer use that part of libffi; ruby-ffi
> implements its own closure allocator.

Yet still the condition in extconf is being used to define options for
the build process, right?

As long that is true, the evaluation of the platform is still relevant

> Speaking of win64, the libffi version in ruby-ffi has been updated to
> 3.0.9rc1, which theoretically includes win64 support, so it would be
> interesting to see if that works with mingw64.  There are probably a
> few win32-isms in the windows support in ruby-ffi that need to be
> cleaned up.
>

Cannot comment further right now, did a good progress on this front
and also support for it with rake-compiler cross-compiling, but still
too premature to start testing 3rd party dependencies (still dealing
with Ruby bundled ones).

Will keep everybody posted.
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Luis Lavena
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