On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Ian Tegebo <ian.teg...@gmail.com> wrote: > While quickloading IOLib, g++ raised an error because it couldn't find > "lfp.h". After digging around a bit, I realized I needed to install > libfixposix. It seems like ASDF would already have a way to express this > dependency, resulting in a clearer error message. > > If this doesn't already exist, what's the way to go about it? A :before > method on prepare-op for cffi components (or some such, I'm just bluffing > here)? > ASDF itself is not going to support that out of the box, but CFFI's ASDF support could be enhanced to better support C dependencies: a new component and/or system class could be defined that describes the C library you need, and/or how to build it.
That said, if you're looking for a build system that can handle multilanguage builds including Common Lisp and C, try Bazel: http://bazel.io/ https://github.com/qitab/bazelisp And if you're unsatisfied with both ASDF and Bazel, maybe join me and create the next great build system: https://ngnghm.github.io/blog/2016/04/26/chapter-9-build-systems/ —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org The only saving grace of government is that they're incompetent, because if they could do what they really want, it would be horrible for all of us
