For cross-reference purposes, the pull request I'm talking about is at: https://github.com/cffi/cffi/pull/73
I've worked at it some more, as you can see in the pull request.
I understand you're busy. If you have time, please tell me at least whether I'm on the right track, or if I'm wasting my time on something you're never going to merge.
In the mean time, I've got a proof of concept of making static linking work not just on sbcl, but also on clisp (though sbcl requires a patch that isn't upstream yet, and the clisp support is not expected to be portable as is).
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