Compling JFFI on Raspberry Pi

I was trying to get JRuby working on my Raspberry Pi so that I could install Ruby Shoes 4. One problem that I came across was that JRuby won't run with the installed version of the Java Foreign Function Interface (JFFI). I found a solution in the JRuby Github Issues.

These are the commands to enter in the terminal:

cd ~

pi@raspberrypi:~$ git clone git://github.com/jnr/jffi.git jffi.git

cd jffi.git

ant jar

sudo cp libjffi-1.2.so /usr/lib
rm -r jffi.git

That got me past the JRuby issue with the JFFI, then I ran into a issue when JRuby tried to import java.lang.reflect.Modifier. It is apparent a bug in the Iced Tea Open JDK ARM builds.

I've decided to wait for a while and see if the issue get resolved before trying any other alternatives.