Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[2.3.0] - 2023-04-26

Add support for loongarch64: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/75
Fix the build process to always use the local “configure” script: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/76

[2.2.1] - 2023-04-02

Fix building with clang 16 and newer: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/74

[2.2.0] - 2023-03-28

Add support for aarch64-apple-ios-sim: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/64
Support aarch64 MSVC target: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/65
Add support for the s390x architecture: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/70

[2.1.0] - 2023-01-02

Update libffi to 3.4.4: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/63

[2.0.1] - 2022-10-20

Fix cross-compiling to Illumos: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/59

[2.0.0] - 2022-03-07

Improve cross-compilation support: https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/53
Rust 1.48 or newer is now required

[1.3.2] - 2022-02-05

Fixed

Fix linker error with C long double on aarch64

[1.3.1] - 2022-02-02

Changed

Added support for RISC-V

[1.3.0] - 2021-10-26

Changed

The source code of libffi is now included directly, rather than through a submodule. This removes the dependency on autotools. See https://github.com/tov/libffi-rs/pull/33 for more information.

[1.2.0] - 2021-10-24

Changed

Updated libffi to 3.4.2

[1.1.3] - 2021-09-10

Changed

The dependency on make-cmd has been removed, and we now always use the make command to compile libffi

[1.1.2] - 2021-08-17

Changed

Remove outdated documentation links

[1.1.1] - 2021-05-06

Fix assert! deprecation in the build script

[1.1.0] - 2020-11-11

Changed

Improved portability by adding support for architectures such as PowerPC and i686, courtesy of Andrew Gaspar
Added support for ARMv7, courtesy of Tim Fish

[1.0.0] - 2020-10-25

Changed

Replace bindgen dependency with manually maintained libffi bindings. This removes the need for installing clang, and reduces the amount of build-time Rust dependencies.
Unset DESTDIR when building libffi.

[0.9.1] - 2019-12-29

Added

Windows support (GNU or MSVC toolchain).

Changed

Updated Rust edition to 2018.

[0.9.0] - 2019-12-07

Changed

Updated version of automatically-built C libffi to 3.3.
No longer builds C libffi documentation (and thus we no longer depend on Texinfo.

[0.8.0] - 2019-10-19

Changed

Updated version of bindgen build dependency to ^0.51 from 0.49. (As a consequence, we now require rustc 1.32.0 or later.)

[0.7.0] - 2019-05-12

Fixed

Yanked previous version (0.6.4), because updating the bindgen dependency was not semver-compatible.

[0.6.4] - 2019-04-10

Changed

Updated version of bindgen build dependency to ^0.49 from 0.31.3. (As a consequence, we now require rustc 1.30.0 or later.)

[0.6.3] - 2018-10-29

Added

Windows support via MSYS or MinGW.

[0.6.2] - 2018-08-21

Added

Feature system probes for system libffi instead of downloading and bulding our own.

[0.6.1] - 2018-05-30

Added

Setting doc(html_root_url) for inter-crate docs linking.
Testing on Rust 1.20.0 now, as oldest supported version.
Better message when bindgen fails.

[0.6.0] - 2017-11-13

Changed

Upgraded to bindgen 0.31.3.

[0.5.4] - 2017-11-12

Changed

Calling bindgen with blacklist_type rather than hide_type, as the latter is deprecated. (Thanks, fitzgen.)

[0.5.3] - 2017-07-07

Added

lib64/ now in library search path.
Build instructions now mention C libffi and texinfo.

[0.5.2] - 2017-04-14

Fixed

Avoid some unnecessary C libffi rebuilds. (Thanks, ngkz.)
Avoids link error on Arch Linux by building C libffi --withpic.

Changed

Links against a self-build static C libffi rather than dynamic. (Thanks, ngkz.)

[0.5.0] - 2017-03-02

Removed

No longer passing --disable-docs to configure for C libffi.

[0.4.7] - 2017-03-01

Changed

Hiding max_align_t struct in stddef.h from bindgen, because it was confusing it.
Upgraded bindgen (0.22). (Thanks, cholcombe973.)

Added

Bindgen now generates default impls. (Thanks, cholcombe973.)

[0.4.6] - 2016-08-29

Changed

Upgraded bindgen (0.18).

[0.4.4] - 2016-06-21

Changed

Builds C libffi from a Git submodule. (Thanks, murarth.)

[0.4.3] - 2016-06-21

Changed

Builds dynamic C libffi.

[0.4.2] - 2016-06-20

Changed

Fetching C libffi from a cached copy on my website, because fetching it from ftp is unreliable.

[0.4.1] - 2016-06-20

Changed

Using -lffi instead of -llibffi.

[0.4.0] - 2016-06-20

Added

Fetches and builds its own C libffi now.

[0.3.4] - 2016-06-17

Changed

Updated clang-sys version.

[0.3.3] - 2016-06-14

Fixed

Crate name in instructions.

[0.3.2] - 2016-06-14

Added

Better error messages from build.rs.
Clarified dependencies in docs.

[0.3.0] - 2016-06-14

Split from libffi crate.