Re: [cffi-devel] support for .a libraries

Alexis Gallagher public@alexisgallagher.com writes:

I was wondering if define-foreign-library can currently handle libraries that are in the "ar" archive format.

No, as far as I know, the ability to load static libraries is unique to CMUCL and Lisp implementations that compile via C.

I keep getting an error "Unable to load foreign library". I thought it wasn't looking in the right load path, but I tried specifying the absolute path, directly and with *foreign-libraries-directory*, but that didn't help.

You will need to load a shared library instead, if possible. Most Lisp FFIs are defined in terms of 'dlopen' or the equivalent.

James