On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Marshall Mason <marshallmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'm new to cffi and Lisp in general. I've been having a lot of trouble > getting cffi to work with passing structs using libffi. I fussed with it for > weeks and decided to wait until I upgraded Debian to jessie to see if that > helped. Now I can't even load cffi-libffi. :( > > Failed to find the TRUENAME of > /usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-cffi/libffi/init.lisp: > No such file or directory > Looks like cl-cffi wasn't packaged properly and doesn't include libffi.
> Before that there are a bunch of warnings like this: > > compiling #<STATIC-FILE "alexandria" "LICENCE"> completed without its input > file #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/alexandria/LICENCE" > This shouldn't prevent things from working, but indicates debian needs a more recent version of alexandria. > This could just be a missing package, but I have everything I can think of. > I searched the Debian respository for > /usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-cffi/libffi/init.lisp and none of them > provide it. Here are my package versions: > > sbcl 2:1.2.4-2 > cl-cffi 1:0.14.0-1 > cl-asdf 2:3.1.4-1 > libffi6 3.1-2+b2 > libffi-dev 3.1-2+b2 > In general, debian cl packages are not very well maintained. You might have better luck with quicklisp — you may want to deinstall non-working debian packages so they don't shadow quicklisp's working ones. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later. — Aristotle
