[Help-smalltalk] Re: problem compiling libffi on Core 2 Duo

[Eric Christopher]

> The interesting parts are:
>
> > I then ran ./configure CFLAGS='-D__i386__=1 -Wall -pipe -O2' and  
> > followed up with make which exited giving me a lot of messages like  
> > src/x86/darwin.S:41:Invalid mnemonic 'pushl'
>
> > This is a Core 2 Duo; my machine (and I assume that of most other
> > Darwin/x86 testers) is a Core Duo.  What kinds of breakage might  
> > there
> > be?
>
> > For the x86 ffitarget.h to compile, either __i386__ or __x86_64__  
> > must
> > be defined.  Neither of these seem to be defined by that compiler  
> > (gcc
> > 4.0.1 20050625 (prerelease)).
>
> Does that ring a bell?

Unfortunately it doesn't ring a bell, but those should be defined in  
at least recent
gccs from apple. I don't have a released compiler installed on any of  
my machines
handy, but looking at gcc -E -dM should get the preprocessor macros  
defined.

Do you have a version of the compiler that was used?

-eric