indygreg
Any reason why libffi is not included in the builds?
When: I was looking forward to use these standalone builds to implement a plugin system battery-included for a Golang event loop.
What: I faced the problem when using ctypes needed to make a bridge between the two. In particular I've seen that in the current builds (at least on linux x86_64) inside the lib folder libffi.so is missing, and therefore when calling ctypes it looks for _ctypes but it cannot find it.
Workaround: Currently I'm exposing libffi.so in another path of my project to ensure it's available, but I think it should be included to make these python builds really standalone.
Why: Is there any particular reason why the libffi is not included? From the source I've seen it and I guess it's being used in the making of the builds, but I've not seen it in detail.
I may even work on the problem myself with some minor guidance to where to start to look.
Environment Python 3.13.11 (python-build-standalone x86_64 install only, release 20250808) Build environment: debian:12 uv 0.8.9
Edit: added information on my environment Edit 2: added release date of the build
