You need to load the libffi "developer" package. I don't know what distro you're using, but on Debian/Ubuntu, it's called libffi-dev. Also, this is more of a question for cffi-devel, but it happens that I wrote cffi-libffi (which is the system triggering this error), so it works out.
Liam On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Nelson Marcelino <marcel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm having trouble getting this to work on Linux. Any help? > > Error while trying to load definition for system gsll from > pathname > /home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/gsll-20130312-git/gsll.asd: > > External process exited with code 1. > Command was: "cc" "-m64" > "-I/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/" > "-o" > "/home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix" > "/home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c" > Output was: > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:7:17: > error: ffi.h: No such file or directory > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c: > In function âmainâ: > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:25: > error: âFFI_OKâ undeclared (first use in this function) > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:25: > error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:25: > error: for each function it appears in.) > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:30: > error: âFFI_BAD_TYPEDEFâ undeclared (first use in this function) > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:35: > error: âFFI_BAD_ABIâ undeclared (first use in this function) > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:46: > error: âFFI_DEFAULT_ABIâ undeclared (first use in this function) > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:51: > error: âFFI_SYSVâ undeclared (first use in this function) > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:56: > error: âFFI_UNIX64â undeclared (first use in this function) > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:64: > error: âffi_abiâ undeclared (first use in this function) > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:111: > error: invalid application of âsizeofâ to incomplete type âstruct _ffi_typeâ > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:116: > error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:121: > error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:126: > error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > /home/nelson/.cache/common-lisp/ccl-1.8-f95-linux-x64/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.0/libffi/libffi-unix.c:131: > error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > > [Condition of type ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR] > > Restarts: > 0: [RETRY] Retry #<STANDARD-CLASS PROCESS-OP> on #<GROVEL-FILE > "cffi-libffi" "libffi" "libffi">. > 1: [ACCEPT] Continue, treating #<STANDARD-CLASS PROCESS-OP> on > #<GROVEL-FILE "cffi-libffi" "libffi" "libffi"> as having been successful. > 2: [RETRY-LOAD] Retry loading > #P"/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/gsll-20130312-git/gsll.asd" > 3: [SKIP-LOAD] Skip loading > #P"/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/gsll-20130312-git/gsll.asd" > 4: [LOAD-OTHER] Load other file instead of > #P"/home/nelson/lib-asdf/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/gsll-20130312-git/gsll.asd" > 5: [REINITIALIZE-SOURCE-REGISTRY-AND-RETRY] Retry finding system gsll after > reinitializing the source-registry.