On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 13:49 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> I've been trying to adopt Reini's packages that have not yet been ported to 
> 64-bit Cygwin and that have some connection to packages I already maintain.  
> The 
> next one on my list is ffcall.

I'm guessing this is for clisp?  (In Fedora, clisp is the only package
which BR: ffcall).

> Unfortunately, the source has a lot of assembler code in it, so I will almost 
> certainly need help from someone well versed in x86_64 assembly language.  
> And 
> the libffcall project appears to be dead upstream, so I'm not going to get 
> help 
> there. 

Unless you can find a patch somewhere for Win64 support.

> I have no idea how hard this will be.  The code has been ported to x86_64 
> Linux, 
> so there's at least a starting point.

Only to a point, there are significant differences:

https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/MinGW%20x64%20Software%
20convention/

--
Yaakov


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