1 The purpose is to hack the libffi sources so that they can be compiled 2 with MSVC, and to extend them so that they have the features I need 3 for ctypes. 4 5 I retrieved the libffi sources from the gcc cvs repository on 6 2004-01-27. Then I did 'configure' in a 'build' subdirectory on a x86 7 linux system, and copied the files I found useful. 8