Re: Help setting up Sablevm

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:22:11PM -0800, Kyle S wrote:
> I am attempting to get Savblevm to work on my amd Open64 box.  But am having no luck installing libffi.
> I am using libffi-sablevm-3765.  After spending hours looking through configure I ended up adding one line (denoted by the plus marks):
> 
>   TARGETDIR="unknown"
>   case "$host" in
>   i*86-*-linux*) TARGET=X86; TARGETDIR=x86;;
>   i*86-*-solaris*) TARGET=X86; TARGETDIR=x86;;
>             ...
>   x86_64-*-linux* | x86_64-*-freebsd* | x86_64-*-kfreebsd*-gnu) TARGET=X86_64; TARGETDIR=x86;;
> ++x86_64-*-openbsd*) TARGET=X86_64; TARGETDIR=x86;; #edited by juri 20MAR2005
>   sh-*-linux* | sh[34]*-*-linux*) TARGET=SH; TARGETDIR=sh;;
> 
> Running './configure && make && make install' seemed to work fine.  But when I tried to install sablevm-1.11.1 I had no luck. All I got was:
>    ...
>    checking for ffi_prep_cif in -lffi... no
>    ***ERROR: libffi is missing
> 
> I read somewhere to try this file and compiliing with 
> gcc -o test -lffi test.c.
> 
> #include <ffi.h>
> int main()
> {
>    ffi_cif cif;
>    ffi_type *args[1];
>    ffi_prep_cif(&cif, FFI_DEFAULT_ABI, 1, &ffi_type_uint, args);
>    return 0;
> }
> 
> I get:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lffi
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> If you need me to send some lines from config.log or do any test.  Please let me know.  Thank you for your help.
> Kyle
> -- 

Hi Kyle,

Where did you install libffi?
Check if properly installed, i.e. if $prefix/lib/libffi.so is there.

Depending on where it is installed, you might need to specify its
location with LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS:
./configure LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/include"

David

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