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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2008-04-09 07:40:48 +0000 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2008-04-09 07:40:48 +0000 |
commit | 48f590e95cd102a5ac981e1bce84596f35288215 (patch) | |
tree | ae32a46f618aee5788cc8b811eab8312a51caca6 /pkgs/development/libraries/libffi | |
parent | cde64235b3abf0301257276eb14b7db7daaa7524 (diff) |
Add libffi, a foreign function interface library.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=11505
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/development/libraries/libffi')
-rw-r--r-- | pkgs/development/libraries/libffi/default.nix | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libffi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libffi/default.nix new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..42e97fb8dfe49 --- /dev/null +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libffi/default.nix @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +{ fetchurl, stdenv }: + +stdenv.mkDerivation rec { + name = "libffi-3.0.5"; + src = fetchurl { + url = "ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/${name}.tar.gz"; + sha256 = "1i0ms6ilhjzz0691nymnvs5a3b5lf95n6p99l65z2zn83rd7pahf"; + }; + + doCheck = true; + + meta = { + description = "libffi, a foreign function call interface library"; + + longDescription = '' + The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming + interface to various calling conventions. This allows a + programmer to call any function specified by a call interface + description at run-time. + + FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function + interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code + written in one language to call code written in another + language. The libffi library really only provides the lowest, + machine dependent layer of a fully featured foreign function + interface. A layer must exist above libffi that handles type + conversions for values passed between the two languages. + ''; + + homepage = http://sources.redhat.com/libffi/; + + license = "http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/libffi/LICENSE?rev=1.6&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=libffi&only_with_tag=MAIN"; + }; +} |