Status
======
-libffi-3.0.11 was released on *****************. Check the libffi web
-page for updates: <URL:http://sourceware.org/libffi/>.
+libffi-3.1 was released on May 19, 2014. Check the libffi web page
+for updates: <URL:http://sourceware.org/libffi/>.
What is libffi?
For specific configuration details and testing status, please
refer to the wiki page here:
- http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.0.11
+ http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.1
At the time of release, the following basic configurations have been
tested:
-|--------------+------------------|
-| Architecture | Operating System |
-|--------------+------------------|
-| Alpha | Linux |
-| Alpha | Tru64 |
-| ARM | Linux |
-| ARM | iOS |
-| AVR32 | Linux |
-| HPPA | HPUX |
-| IA-64 | Linux |
-| M68K | RTEMS |
-| MIPS | IRIX |
-| MIPS | Linux |
-| MIPS | RTEMS |
-| MIPS64 | Linux |
-| PowerPC | AMIGA |
-| PowerPC | Linux |
-| PowerPC | Mac OSX |
-| PowerPC | FreeBSD |
-| PowerPC64 | Linux |
-| S390 | Linux |
-| S390X | Linux |
-| SPARC | Linux |
-| SPARC | Solaris |
-| SPARC64 | Linux |
-| SPARC64 | FreeBSD |
-| X86 | FreeBSD |
-| X86 | Interix |
-| X86 | kFreeBSD |
-| X86 | Linux |
-| X86 | Mac OSX |
-| X86 | OpenBSD |
-| X86 | OS/2 |
-| X86 | Solaris |
-| X86 | Windows/Cygwin |
-| X86 | Windows/MingW |
-| X86-64 | FreeBSD |
-| X86-64 | Linux |
-| X86-64 | OpenBSD |
-| X86-64 | Windows/MingW |
-|--------------+------------------|
+|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------|
+| Architecture | Operating System | Compiler |
+|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------|
+| AArch64 (ARM64) | iOS | Clang |
+| AArch64 | Linux | GCC |
+| Alpha | Linux | GCC |
+| Alpha | Tru64 | GCC |
+| ARC | Linux | GCC |
+| ARM | Linux | GCC |
+| ARM | iOS | GCC |
+| AVR32 | Linux | GCC |
+| Blackfin | uClinux | GCC |
+| HPPA | HPUX | GCC |
+| IA-64 | Linux | GCC |
+| M68K | FreeMiNT | GCC |
+| M68K | Linux | GCC |
+| M68K | RTEMS | GCC |
+| M88K | OpenBSD/mvme88k | GCC |
+| Meta | Linux | GCC |
+| MicroBlaze | Linux | GCC |
+| MIPS | IRIX | GCC |
+| MIPS | Linux | GCC |
+| MIPS | RTEMS | GCC |
+| MIPS64 | Linux | GCC |
+| Moxie | Bare metal | GCC |
+| Nios II | Linux | GCC |
+| PowerPC 32-bit | AIX | IBM XL C |
+| PowerPC 64-bit | AIX | IBM XL C |
+| PowerPC | AMIGA | GCC |
+| PowerPC | Linux | GCC |
+| PowerPC | Mac OSX | GCC |
+| PowerPC | FreeBSD | GCC |
+| PowerPC 64-bit | FreeBSD | GCC |
+| PowerPC 64-bit | Linux ELFv1 | GCC |
+| PowerPC 64-bit | Linux ELFv2 | GCC |
+| S390 | Linux | GCC |
+| S390X | Linux | GCC |
+| SPARC | Linux | GCC |
+| SPARC | Solaris | GCC |
+| SPARC | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
+| SPARC64 | Linux | GCC |
+| SPARC64 | FreeBSD | GCC |
+| SPARC64 | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
+| TILE-Gx/TILEPro | Linux | GCC |
+| VAX | OpenBSD/vax | GCC |
+| X86 | FreeBSD | GCC |
+| X86 | GNU HURD | GCC |
+| X86 | Interix | GCC |
+| X86 | kFreeBSD | GCC |
+| X86 | Linux | GCC |
+| X86 | Mac OSX | GCC |
+| X86 | OpenBSD | GCC |
+| X86 | OS/2 | GCC |
+| X86 | Solaris | GCC |
+| X86 | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
+| X86 | Windows/Cygwin | GCC |
+| X86 | Windows/MingW | GCC |
+| X86-64 | FreeBSD | GCC |
+| X86-64 | Linux | GCC |
+| X86-64 | Linux/x32 | GCC |
+| X86-64 | OpenBSD | GCC |
+| X86-64 | Solaris | Oracle Solaris Studio C |
+| X86-64 | Windows/MingW | GCC |
+| Xtensa | Linux | GCC |
+|-----------------+------------------+-------------------------|
Please send additional platform test results to
libffi-discuss@sourceware.org and feel free to update the wiki page
"configure" program found in the root directory of the libffi source
distribution.
+If you're building libffi directly from version control, configure won't
+exist yet; run ./autogen.sh first.
+
You may want to tell configure where to install the libffi library and
header files. To do that, use the --prefix configure switch. Libffi
will install under /usr/local by default.
Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler. In this case, use the msvcc.sh
wrapper script during configuration like so:
-path/to/configure CC=path/to/msvcc.sh LD=link CPP=\"cl -nologo -EP\"
+path/to/configure CC=path/to/msvcc.sh CXX=path/to/msvcc.sh LD=link CPP=\"cl -nologo -EP\"
+
+For 64-bit Windows builds, use CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64" and
+CXX="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64". You may also need to specify --build
+appropriately.
-For 64-bit Windows builds, use CC="path/to/msvcc.sh -m64".
-You may also need to specify --build appropriately. When building with MSVC
-under a MingW environment, you may need to remove the line in configure
-that sets 'fix_srcfile_path' to a 'cygpath' command. ('cygpath' is not
-present in MingW, and is not required when using MingW-style paths.)
+When building with MSVC under a MingW environment, you may need to
+remove the line in configure that sets 'fix_srcfile_path' to a 'cygpath'
+command. ('cygpath' is not present in MingW, and is not required when
+using MingW-style paths.)
-For iOS builds, refer to the build-ios.sh script for guidance.
+For iOS builds, the 'libffi.xcodeproj' Xcode project is available.
Configure has many other options. Use "configure --help" to see them all.
Once configure has finished, type "make". Note that you must be using
-GNU make. You can ftp GNU make from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu.
+GNU make. You can ftp GNU make from ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/make .
To ensure that libffi is working as advertised, type "make check".
This will require that you have DejaGNU installed.
History
=======
-See the ChangeLog files for details.
-
-3.0.11 MMM-DD-YY
+See the git log for details at http://github.com/atgreen/libffi.
+
+3.1 May-19-14
+ Add AArch64 (ARM64) iOS support.
+ Add Nios II support.
+ Add m88k and DEC VAX support.
+ Add support for stdcall, thiscall, and fastcall on non-Windows
+ 32-bit x86 targets such as Linux.
+ Various Android, MIPS N32, x86, FreeBSD and UltraSPARC IIi
+ fixes.
+ Make the testsuite more robust: eliminate several spurious
+ failures, and respect the $CC and $CXX environment variables.
+ Archive off the manually maintained ChangeLog in favor of git
+ log.
+
+3.0.13 Mar-17-13
+ Add Meta support.
+ Add missing Moxie bits.
+ Fix stack alignment bug on 32-bit x86.
+ Build fix for m68000 targets.
+ Build fix for soft-float Power targets.
+ Fix the install dir location for some platforms when building
+ with GCC (OS X, Solaris).
+ Fix Cygwin regression.
+
+3.0.12 Feb-11-13
+ Add Moxie support.
+ Add AArch64 support.
+ Add Blackfin support.
+ Add TILE-Gx/TILEPro support.
+ Add MicroBlaze support.
+ Add Xtensa support.
+ Add support for PaX enabled kernels with MPROTECT.
+ Add support for native vendor compilers on
+ Solaris and AIX.
+ Work around LLVM/GCC interoperability issue on x86_64.
+
+3.0.11 Apr-11-12
Lots of build fixes.
- Add Amiga newer MacOS support.
+ Add support for variadic functions (ffi_prep_cif_var).
+ Add Linux/x32 support.
+ Add thiscall, fastcall and MSVC cdecl support on Windows.
+ Add Amiga and newer MacOS support.
+ Add m68k FreeMiNT support.
+ Integration with iOS' xcode build tools.
Fix Octeon and MC68881 support.
Fix code pessimizations.
Authors & Credits
=================
-libffi was originally written by Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>.
+libffi was originally written by Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>.
The developers of the GNU Compiler Collection project have made
innumerable valuable contributions. See the ChangeLog file for
Major processor architecture ports were contributed by the following
developers:
+aarch64 Marcus Shawcroft, James Greenhalgh
alpha Richard Henderson
arm Raffaele Sena
+blackfin Alexandre Keunecke I. de Mendonca
cris Simon Posnjak, Hans-Peter Nilsson
frv Anthony Green
ia64 Hans Boehm
m32r Kazuhiro Inaoka
m68k Andreas Schwab
+m88k Miod Vallat
+microblaze Nathan Rossi
mips Anthony Green, Casey Marshall
mips64 David Daney
+moxie Anthony Green
+nios ii Sandra Loosemore
pa Randolph Chung, Dave Anglin, Andreas Tobler
powerpc Geoffrey Keating, Andreas Tobler,
David Edelsohn, John Hornkvist
sh Kaz Kojima
sh64 Kaz Kojima
sparc Anthony Green, Gordon Irlam
+tile-gx/tilepro Walter Lee
+vax Miod Vallat
x86 Anthony Green, Jon Beniston
x86-64 Bo Thorsen
+xtensa Chris Zankel
Jesper Skov and Andrew Haley both did more than their fair share of
stepping through the code and tracking down bugs.