On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Ian Tegebo ian.tegebo@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/
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