Hi,

I updated clsql to version 3.7.1 and it is not working (for Oracle) anymore using CFFI (updated from darcs repo today). I tried CLISP versions 1.39 and Allegro 8.0 on windows XP. The problem happens when I try to connect.

The error message is: "Symbol "DEF-POINTER-VAR" not found in the CFFI-UFFI-COMPAT package."

I think that this macro is missing. I copied the macro def-pointer-var from uffi's objects.lisp to uffi-compat.lisp...

;;; Define a special variable, like DEFVAR, that will be initialized ;;; to a pointer which may need to be reset when a saved image is ;;; loaded. This is needed for OpenMCL, which sets pointers to "dead ;;; macptrs" when a saved image is loaded. ;; This may possibly be needed for sbcl's SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE (defmacro def-pointer-var (name value &optional doc) #-openmcl `(defvar ,name ,value ,@(if doc (list doc))) #+openmcl `(ccl::defloadvar ,name ,value ,doc))

..and added #:def-pointer-var to cffi-user-compat's export symbols. Now it seems to work buy I am not sure it is the best solution.

[]s, Ricardo Boccato Alves.