Mention C99 and build requirements

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Anthony Green
2018-03-27 05:07:08 -04:00
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@@ -125,10 +125,12 @@ Installing libffi
First you must configure the distribution for your particular
system. Go to the directory you wish to build libffi in and run the
"configure" program found in the root directory of the libffi source
distribution.
distribution. Note that building libffi requires a C99 compatible
compiler.
If you're building libffi directly from version control, configure won't
exist yet; run ./autogen.sh first.
If you're building libffi directly from git hosted sources, configure
won't exist yet; run ./autogen.sh first. This will require that you
install autoconf, automake and libtool.
You may want to tell configure where to install the libffi library and
header files. To do that, use the ``--prefix`` configure switch. Libffi