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author | Chun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org> | 2017-06-14 11:12:22 +0800 |
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committer | Chun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org> | 2017-06-14 11:17:06 +0800 |
commit | f3561115e44cceebc9aecb859ffdfca4ef36cf93 (patch) | |
tree | 20f7233fd92328f2b25659a60b5b32c3ded131f0 /win32/vs10/README.txt | |
parent | cebe79cc76ac0a6dba1e4b5ea08df4b30d3148ac (diff) | |
download | gobject-introspection-f3561115e44cceebc9aecb859ffdfca4ef36cf93.tar.gz |
Visual Studio builds: Use the Centricular fork of libffi
The upstream libffi is getting bit-rotten on the regards of Windows/MSVC
builds, and we are eventually moving towards to the Meson build system,
so make use of the Centricular fork of libffi[1] which is better maintained
and tested for Windows/MSVC builds.
[1]: https://github.com/centricular/libffi
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/win32/vs10/README.txt b/win32/vs10/README.txt index d3ff8b48..e91adbf6 100644 --- a/win32/vs10/README.txt +++ b/win32/vs10/README.txt @@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ usage of different CRTs. Please refer to the README.txt file in $(GLib_src_root)\build\win32\vs10 on how to build
GLib using Visual C++ 2010
-For LibFFI, please get version 3.0.10 or later, as Visual C++ build support
-was added in the 3.0.10 release series. Please see the README file that
-comes with the LibFFI source package for more details on how to build LibFFI
-on Visual C++-please note that the mozilla-build package from Mozilla is needed
-in order to build LibFFI on Windows.
+For LibFFI, please use the Centricular fork of it, which can be found at
+https://github.com/centricular/libffi. Please refer there on building--please
+note that this will involve the use of the Meson build system and possible the
+Ninja build tool, if the Visual Studio project generation is not used or is
+unavailable.
For Python, retrieving the official Windows binaries for 2.7 (2.x) or 3.3 (3.x) or later
from http://www.python.org will do the job-be sure that the Python version that
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