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Re: Building libffi with MSVC
Hey John,
Read again, gyp generates MS Visual Studio (MSVS) project files. I was
specifying how the resulting project files *would not* need Cygwin or
MSYS, which is what it sounded like you wanted.
As for how to install gyp, it's a Python project from Google. You need
Python 2.6 or 2.7 (not 3 though) and just check out the svn repo.
It sounds like you got things figured out though doing it manually so,
good stuff. Cheers!
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:26 AM, John Emmas <johne53@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2012, at 07:21, Nathan Rajlich wrote:
>
>>
>> I maintain node-ffi, a node.js wrapper for libffi. For that we use the
>> GYP build system, which produces MSVS project files. It may be able to
>> suit your needs without getting Cygwin or MSYS involved.
>>
>
> Thanks Nathan. I'm not averse to trying MSYS but if possible, I'd prefer to keep Cygwin out of the equation. I tried Cygwin a few years ago and to be fair, I found it pretty good. However, the main support developer was extraordinarily unhelpful and I ended up kicking Cygwin into the long grass. To be absolutely honest, I'd prefer it to stay there!
>
> How do I install GYP? It looks like the kind of thing that should be available in binary form - but all I could find were the source files.
>
> John