20 Jan
2006
20 Jan
'06
2:14 p.m.
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 05:23 +0000, Alexis Gallagher wrote:
I was wondering if define-foreign-library can currently handle libraries that are in the "ar" archive format.
It is a UNIX limitation, not a Lisp one, that archives cannot be mapped as executable memory. The reasons for this have to do with "position-independent code"; for further information, search that term. The reason .so libraries were created, in fact, was to offer a dynamically-loadable alternative to archives, which you will find are little more than balls of .o files. I recommend that you obtain a .so version of your library. For help with this, I suggest contacting the library's maintainer(s). -- Stephen Compall http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog