RFR: 8309880: Add support for linking libffi on Windows and Mac [v2]
Erik Joelsson
erikj at openjdk.org
Tue Jun 13 17:22:54 UTC 2023
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:09:30 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Update the make/autoconf/lib-ffi.m4 script to support using libffi on Windows and Mac.
>>
>> For Windows I had to tweak `fallbackLinker.c` to be able to build: there was an import of `stdint.h` missing, and since it was using `WSAGetLastError` it needed to link against `ws2_32.lib`.
>>
>> This PR also contains a fix originally made by @shipilev as part of: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/13827 (with a minor tweak), in order to be able to build the fallback linker on mac correctly. I also disabled 3 failing tests in the jdk_foreign suite on that platform.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> I've updated the `createLibffiBundle.sh` script for Mac, since I got it to work with a devkit, but I didn't manage to do the same for Windows. The steps I took to make my Windows libffi bundle were as follows:
>> 1. run 'x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2022'. cl.exe and link.exe should be on path
>> 2. run `ucrt64` (this is one of the shell environments that comes with MSYS2). This should carry over the environment set up by the VS dev prompt.
>> 3. then, in the libffi repo root folder:
>> 3.a run `autogen.sh`
>> 3.b run:
>>
>> bash configure \
>> CC="/path/to/libffi/msvcc.sh -m64" \
>> CXX="/path/to/libffi/msvcc.sh -m64" \
>> CPPFLAGS="-DFFI_BUILDING_DLL" \
>> --disable-docs \
>> --prefix=<install dest>
>>
>> (`<install dest>` can be whatever you like. That's what you point `--with-libffi` to).
>>
>> 4. run `make install`. This should create the `<intstall dest>` directory with the files: `include/ffi.h`, `include/ffitarget.h`, `lib/libffi.dll`. It also creates a `lib/libffi.lib` file, but it is of the wrong file type, `DLL` rather than `LIBRARY`.
>> 5. Manually create a working `.lib` file:
>> 5.a use `dumpbin /exports libffi.dll` to get a list of exported symbols
>> 5.b put them in a `libffi.def` file: `EXPORTS` on the first line, then a symbol on each line following
>> 5.c run `lib /def:libffi.def /machine:x64 /out:libffi.lib` to create the right `.lib` file (`lib` is a visual studio tool)
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Testing:
>> - manual testing on Windows/x64 and Mac/AArch64, by running the `jdk_foreign` test suite with `-Djdk.internal.foreign.CABI=FALLBACK` (i.e. using the fallback linker).
>> - Linux/x64 Zero test run of the `jdk_foreign` suite
>> - Linux/AArch64 Zero build
>
> Jorn Vernee has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
>
> - missing changes
> - Address review comments:
> - Tab to spaces in java.base/Lib.gmk
> - Add comment with Windows build instructions to createLibffiBundle.sh
Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).
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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14446#pullrequestreview-1477706215
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