Hello, I am a budding Common Lisper. I was working on a cl-mechanizehttps://github.com/joachifm/cl-mechanizescript to fill out an HTML form when I noticed that one of cl-mechanize's dependencies, cl+ssl http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-plus-ssl/, depends on CFFI.

When I try to load cl-mechanize, which loads drakma, which loads cl+ssl, I get the following message:

*** - CFFI requires CLISP compiled with dynamic FFI support.

The problem seems to be that ffcall is not installed. When I try to install it with MacPorts, I get this message:

$ sudo port install ffcall ---> Fetching ffcall ---> Attempting to fetch ffcall-1.10.tar.gz from http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/ffcall ---> Verifying checksum(s) for ffcall ---> Extracting ffcall ---> Configuring ffcall ---> Building ffcall Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details) Log for ffcall is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ffcall/main.log Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. To report a bug, see http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets

Here are my specs:

- cl-mechanize 0.0 (depends on drakma) - drakma 1.2.3 (depends on cl+ssl) - cl+ssl 2007 - Quicklisp 2010121400 (used to install common lisp packages) - CLISP 2.49 - ffcall 1.10 - MacPorts 1.9.2 - Mac OS X 10.6.6 - MacBook Pro 5,1

Thanks for your consideration,

Andrew Pennebaker http://www.yellosoft.us/