Hello, I'd like to suggest a change to %load-foreign-library in lispworks. :dlopen-flags in fli:register-module is default to :local-lazy, which means setting RTLD_LOCAL || RTLD_LAZY flag when calling dlopen. This will not allow me to open shared libraries in sequential that depends on previously loaded ones. So I suggest to set :dlopen-flags to :global-lazy as default in % load-foreign-library in cffi-lispworks.lisp. The code will look like: (defun %load-foreign-library (name path) "Load the foreign library NAME." (fli:register-module (or name path) :connection-style :immediate :real-name path + :dlopen-flags :global-lazy)) P.S. Here's the Lispworks documentation: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw51/FLI/html/fli-120.htm#marker-1058... Cheers, Jianshi -- ---------------------