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Binary package “libffi-dev” in ubuntu xenial

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. libffi-dev

Foreign Function Interface library (development files)

 This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for
 building programs which use libffi.
 .
 A foreign function interface is the popular name for the interface that
 allows code written in one language to call code written in another
 language.

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