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<sect1 id="ch-system-libffi" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="libffi.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
<productname>libffi</productname>
<productnumber>&libffi-version;</productnumber>
<address>&libffi-url;</address>
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<title>Libffi-&libffi-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-libffi">
<primary sortas="a-libffi">libffi</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
<para>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.</para>
<para>FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. An FFI allows a program written
in one language to call a program written in another language. Specifically,
Libffi can provide a bridge between an interpreter like Perl, or Python, and
shared library subroutines written in C, or C++.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>&libffi-fin-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&libffi-fin-du;</seg>
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</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Libffi</title>
<note>
<para>Like GMP, Libffi builds with optimizations specific
to the processor in use. If building for another system, change the
value of the <parameter>--with-gcc-arch=</parameter> parameter in the
following command to an architecture name fully implemented by the
CPU on that system.
If this is not done, all applications that link to
<filename class='libraryfile'>libffi</filename> will trigger
Illegal Operation Errors.</para>
</note>
<para>Prepare Libffi for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--with-gcc-arch=native</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--with-gcc-arch=native</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>Ensure GCC optimizes for the current system. If this
is not specified, the system is guessed and the code generated
may not be correct. If the generated code
will be copied from the native system to a less capable
system, use the less capable system as a parameter. For details
about alternative system types, see <ulink
url='https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-&gcc-version;/gcc/x86-Options.html'>
the x86 options in the GCC manual</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
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<sect2 arch="ml_32,ml_all" role="installation">
<title>Installation of Libffi - 32bit</title>
<para>Clean previous build:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">make distclean</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Libffi for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" ./configure \
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
--prefix=/usr \
--libdir=/usr/lib32 \
--disable-static \
--with-gcc-arch=i686</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32
rm -rf DESTDIR</userinput></screen>
</sect2><!-- m32 -->
<!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
<!-- Multilib - x32bit -->
<!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
<sect2 arch="ml_x32,ml_all" role="installation">
<title>Installation of Libffi - x32bit</title>
<para>Clean previous build:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">make distclean</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Libffi for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -mx32" CXX="g++ -mx32" ./configure \
--host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnux32 \
--prefix=/usr \
--libdir=/usr/libx32 \
--disable-static \
--with-gcc-arch=x86_64</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/libx32/* /usr/libx32
rm -rf DESTDIR</userinput></screen>
</sect2><!-- mx32 -->
<sect2 id="contents-libffi" role="content">
<title>Contents of Libffi</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>libffi.so</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="libffi">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libffi</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Contains the foreign function interface API functions</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-libffi">
<primary sortas="c-libffi">libffi</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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