Yes, it requires the GNU toolchain.

2010/1/17 Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Is it safe to say that ffi requires the GNU toolchain? I can't get it
> to build with the Sun Studio compiler, and I haven't tried with MS VC+
> +, but I wanted to ask before I tried that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>