libffi-3.0.8

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-6.5 platform.

Package Information

Installation of libffi

Install libffi by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libffi.{so,a}
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/libffi-3.0.8/include

Short Descriptions

libffi.{so,a}

contains the libffi API functions.

Last updated on 2009-10-10 13:08:15 +0000