On Jan 28, 10:12 am, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Are there any plans to support other compilers? Or does FFI use some
> > GNU specific extensions?

>
> As long libffi is compilable with Visual Studio and a makefile for it
> is provided (maybe libffivs.mk) things could work.
>
> Please take a look here:
>
> http://github.com/ffi/ffi/blob/master/ext/ffi_c/extconf.rb#L28-39
>
> And here:
>
> http://github.com/ffi/ffi/tree/master/ext/ffi_c/
>
> for libffi.*.mk files
>
> Then try compiling and running the specs with a Visual Studio built
> version of Ruby.
>
> (gem install ffi --development will install all the dependencies)

I tried messing with the makefile generation for the Sun Studio
Compiler, but couldn't make it work. I just don't know enough about
the idiosyncrasies of make to know what to do.

Regards,

Dan