Creating binary for jffi

This probably isn't the best place for this question, but there's no issues support at the actual project (https://github.com/jnr/jffi).

I'll call Wayne's attention to this issue.

If you're able to investigate yourself, look under the jni/ subdir and see if you can get things to configure and (attempt to) build without using ant.

Charles, thanks for your reply. My jni directory contains an executable 'GNUmakefile' and the following directories: build, jffi, libffi and win32.the build directory has an empty subdirectory of libffi-s390x-linux.

Where can I find instructions on how to manually configure?

Ok, I got past that error by downloading the libffi source into the /ffi-1.0.2/jni/jffi directory and running configure and make. Then issuing 'ant jar test' goes further and fails on:

-do-jar-with-libraries:

-do-jar-with-libraries-without-mainclass:

-do-jar-with-libraries-without-manifest:

BUILD FAILED
/bsc/jruby/jffi-1.0.2/nbproject/build-impl.xml:555: taskdef class org.netbeans.modules.java.j2seproject.copylibstask.CopyLibs cannot be found
using the classloader AntClassLoader[]

Success!

The above error was caused by a missing org-netbeans-modules-java-j2seproject-copylibstask.jar file in my /jffi-1.0.2/lib/CopyLibs directory. In fact, this directory was empty. I found a copy of this jar file in here http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/jffi/

I now have a jffi-s390x-Linux.jar in my dist directory for jffi.

How and where can I contribute this for inclusion in future jruby distributions?

Thanks,

I'm a bit late, but there should be a s390x-Linux build already in the archive directory in jffi (as checked out from github) - but I hadn't pushed it yet.

Try that one first, and if it doesn't work for you (not sure what Linux it was built on), then attach a build from the latest jffi source to this ticket, and I'll include it in the next release.

That same build should already be in jruby-master/build_lib/jffi-s390x-Linux.jar

Hi Wayne,

The archive directory you mention contains jars for various distributions but the jar files for the s390x and ppc64 appear to be empty (only 114 bytes file size).

I downloaded the jffi 1.0.10 archive and did the following 'ant clean', 'ant compile' and 'ant jar'. I ended up with a new jffi-s390x-Linux.jar in the dist directory which I will attach here.

Will this jar file need to be compiled for each new version of jffi?
Will this work its way into JRuby because it is jruby that I am trying to get working on s390x?

Thanks for your help.

Built for s390x architecture using SUSE SLES 11 sp1 and jffi 1.0.10.

Hi Wayne,

Are you able to include the attached binary in your latest release?

It appears to be there on master...I'm marking this resolved. You can try a master build of JRuby from http://ci.jruby.org/snapshots.

system ~/projects/jruby $ ls -l lib/native/s390x-Linux/libjffi-1.0.so 
-rw-r--r--  1 headius  staff  92872 Aug 22 16:44 lib/native/s390x-Linux/libjffi-1.0.so