2009/12/12 rogerdpack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com>:

>> in windows, this code fails:
>>
>> require 'ffi'
>>
>> module Hello
>>   extend FFI::Library
>>   attach_function 'puts', [:string], :int
>> end
>>
>> Hello.puts("Hello, World")

>
> appears it needed an extra
> ffi_lib 'crtdll'

I just updated the samples to use FFI::Library::LIBC as the library.
That resolves to 'libc.so.6' on linux, and 'msvcrt.dll' on windows.

Can someone verify that blindly using msvcrt.dll like that won't cause
problems on windows?