I was wondering if I could ask for some advice.

I'm currently working with lisp-zmq which uses grovel to create the CFFI declarations. This is fine and works great on my development box, but I would prefer not to require that other developers in my organization also run grovel.

As such, I would like to be able to check in the files that were generated by grovel and have these automatically loaded in other environments.

This already works! However, my problem is that in our environment, ASDF compiles fasls into a default user output path and then loads them (something like ~/.cache/common-lisp/...). I will not have any control over the content at this location prior to loading the lisp-zmq system for the first time, and so there isn't really anywhere that I can automatically deploy the pre-generated grovel files.

My questions are:

* Is there any way to specify using defsystem that a local fasl should be used?

* Are there any suggestions that anybody can give me to solve my problem. Perhaps I should precompile the lisp-zmq system and load that instead.

I'd rather not change any of the behavior on anybody's development environment, so (asdf:disable-output-translations) isn't an option. I'd like to have this self contained as much as possible.

Many Thanks,

Kevin