Re: ANN: Alien 0.3.1

[Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@...>]

Ignacio Burgueño wrote:
> Fabio Mascarenhas wrote:
> > Well, guess I spoke too soon about libffi! The documentation is pretty 
> > sketchy, but I dug around in the source of the CVS version of libffi 
> > and found how to do callbacks. So after some hours of late night 
> > hacking I ripped out ffcall and put libffi in its place. The Alien API 
> > remains the same, so I am calling this version 0.3.1.
>
> I can't install it under Windows. I have luarocks 0.4.2

Ejem... I've missed the part in the docs that reads "Alien should work 
in any Unix-based system, and it will work on Windows shortly."

Anyway... Will Alien be able to call functions with calling conventions 
other than cdecl ? Mostly stdcall, I don't really need the others [1]

Regards,
Ignacio Burgueño

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions