chapter06/libffi.xml

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   7
   8 <sect1 id="ch-system-libffi" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="libffi.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>libffi</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&libffi-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&libffi-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>libffi-&libffi-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-system-libffi">
  20     <primary sortas="a-libffi">libffi</primary>
  21   </indexterm>
  22
  23   <sect2 role="package">
  24     <title/>
  25
  26     <para>The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming
  27     interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call
  28     any function specified by a call interface description at run time.</para>
  29
  30     <segmentedlist>
  31       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  32       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  33
  34       <seglistitem>
  35         <seg>&libffi-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  36         <seg>&libffi-ch6-du;</seg>
  37       </seglistitem>
  38     </segmentedlist>
  39
  40   </sect2>
  41
  42   <sect2 role="installation">
  43     <title>Installation of libffi</title>
  44
  45     <para>Modify the Makefile to install headers into the standard
  46     <filename class="directory">/usr/include</filename> directory instead of
  47     <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/libffi-3.2.1/include</filename>.</para>
  48
  49 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/^includesdir/ s/$(libdir).*$/$(includedir)/' \
  50     -i include/Makefile.in
  51
  52 sed -e '/^includedir/ s/=.*$/=@includedir@/' \
  53     -e 's/^Cflags: -I${includedir}/Cflags:/' \
  54     -i libffi.pc.in</userinput></screen>
  55
  56     <para>Prepare libffi for compilation:</para>
  57
  58 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static</userinput></screen>
  59
  60     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  61
  62 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  63
  64     <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
  65
  66 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  67
  68     <para>Install the package:</para>
  69
  70 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  71
  72   </sect2>
  73
  74   <sect2 id="contents-libffi" role="content">
  75     <title>Contents of libffi</title>
  76
  77     <segmentedlist>
  78       <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
  79
  80       <seglistitem>
  81         <seg>libffi.so</seg>
  82       </seglistitem>
  83     </segmentedlist>
  84
  85     <variablelist>
  86       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  87       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  88       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  89
  90       <varlistentry id="libffi">
  91         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libffi</filename></term>
  92         <listitem>
  93           <para>contains the libffi API functions.</para>
  94           <indexterm zone="ch-system-libffi">
  95             <primary sortas="c-libffi">libffi</primary>
  96           </indexterm>
  97         </listitem>
  98       </varlistentry>
  99     </variablelist>
 100
 101   </sect2>
 102
 103 </sect1>
 104