[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article
> <CAP1=2W7Cx5JpQV_pr61RQs1uBUSJF5f6KG0cD-QCwR2+9ijegg at mail.gmail.com>,
>> For UNIX OSs we could probably rely on the system libffi then. What's the
>> situation on OS X? Anyone know if it has libffi, or would be need to be
>> pulled in to be used like on Windows?
>
> Ronald (in http://bugs.python.org/issue23534):
> "On OSX the internal copy of libffi that's used is based on the one in
> PyObjC, which in turn is based on the version of libffi on
> opensource.apple.com (IIRC with some small patches that fix minor issues
> found by the PyObjC testsuite)."
>
> --
>  Ned Deily,
>  nad at acm.org

>From pypy experience, libffi installed on OS X tends to just work (we
never had any issues with those)