[Gambas-user] Release of Gambas 2.1

Sun Feb 24 07:37:40 CET 2008

Hi,
    I'm not sure if I'm replying in the right manner but here gos.....

I had a similar problem in Fedora 7 only I couldn't find and rpm package
for libffi. I resolved it by compiling libffi-3.0.1 from source (running
#> ./configure; make; make install) and then copying the header files
(ffi.h and ffitarget.h) to /usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.1/include and the
library files (libffi.so, libffi.so.5 etc...) to /usr/local/lib.

Once I did that Gambas 2.1.0 and 2.2.0 compiled perfectly.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ben

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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:35:08 +0800
> From: Steven Drinnan <steven at ...1545...>
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Release of Gambas 2.1
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> Compiling error. 
> 
> I have just downloaded the latest source code and tried to compile it.
> Here is the configure output. I get the following error at the end
> 
> configure: WARNING: *** foreign function interface is disabled
> configure: error: libffi library and headers are required
> configure: error: ./configure failed for main
> 
> Installed libffi and devel files to same result
> 
> 
> uname -r output for info
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> Linux laptop.myhome 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:48:34 EST
> 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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> I have successfully complied v2.0 no probs
> 
> Steven Drinnan
> 
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 09:37 +0100, Benoit Minisini wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Gambas 2.1 has been released. This is the first gambas version that works 
> > indifferently on 32 bits and 64 bits system. Finally!
> > 
> > Because of a design flaw, you have to recompile your project when going from 
> > one architecture to the other, as soon as you use the Pointer datatype in 
> > your code. Otherwise, Gambas executable aree fully compatible.
> > 
> > This flaw design is fixed in the Gambas 3 development version.
> > 
> > The IDE now fully supports the development of component projects, i.e. 
> > components written in Gambas. It can make binary packages for these 
> > components too, but Ubuntu and Debian distributions are not supported at the 
> > moment.
> > 
> > There are a lot of bug fixes too, you can see them in the ChangeLog as usual.
> > 
> > To test a component project, just install it by checking the option in 
> > the "make executable" dialog. The component will be installed in your home 
> > directory, and the IDE will immediately display the controls defined by this 
> > component in its toolbox.
> > 
> > Developing a component needs some documentation yet. I hope I will be able to 
> > write it soon... Anyway, you can ask questions on the mailing-list as usual.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:39:28 +0100
> From: Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Release of Gambas 2.1
> To: mailing list for gambas users <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID: <200802221339.28586.gambas at ...1...>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-15"
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> On vendredi 22 f?vrier 2008, Steven Drinnan wrote:
> > Compiling error.
> >
> > I have just downloaded the latest source code and tried to compile it.
> > Here is the configure output. I get the following error at the end
> >
> > configure: WARNING: *** foreign function interface is disabled
> > configure: error: libffi library and headers are required
> > configure: error: ./configure failed for main
> >
> > Installed libffi and devel files to same result
> >
> >
> 
> Are you sure? What is your distribution? What is the full output of configure? 
> Where are the libffi header files installed?
> 
> -- 
> Benoit Minisini
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