Question about cffi-libffi on win32 - cffi-devel - mailman3.common-lisp.net

16 Sep 2013


      Dear all,
I'm using SBCL 1.1.4.0.mswin.1288-90ab477. I want to use cffi-libffi but
failed. Here is what I did:
1. First, download libffi_3.0.6-1_win32.zip from
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/ and drop
libff-5.dll to a place that SBCL can find.
2. use quicklisp to load the cffi-libffi system. However, I got the
following error:
* (ql:quickload "cffi-libffi")
To load "cffi-libffi":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    cffi-libffi
; Loading "cffi-libffi"
; c:/msys/1.0/bin/gcc.exe -m32 -I/Documents and
Settings/eryiju/quicklisp/dists/
quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.2/ -o C:\Documents and
Settings\eryiju\Application
Data\common-lisp\cache\sbcl-1.1.4.0.mswin.1288-90ab477-win-x86\C\Documents
and S
ettings\eryiju\quicklisp\dists\quicklisp\software\cffi_0.11.2\libffi\libffi-win3
2.exe C:\Documents and Settings\eryiju\Application
Data\common-lisp\cache\sbcl-1
.1.4.0.mswin.1288-90ab477-win-x86\C\Documents and
Settings\eryiju\quicklisp\dist
s\quicklisp\software\cffi_0.11.2\libffi\libffi-win32.c
note: SBCL on windows can't redirect output.
debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING
{23D
A8AC1}>: External process exited with code 1.
Command was: "c:/msys/1.0/bin/gcc.exe" "-m32" "-I/Documents and
Settings/eryiju/
quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.2/" "-o" "C:\Documents and
Setting
s\eryiju\Application
Data\common-lisp\cache\sbcl-1.1.4.0.mswin.1288-90ab477
-win-x86\C\Documents and
Settings\eryiju\quicklisp\dists\quicklisp\softwa
re\cffi_0.11.2\libffi\libffi-win32.exe" "C:\Documents and
Settings\eryiju\
Application
Data\common-lisp\cache\sbcl-1.1.4.0.mswin.1288-90ab477-win-x86\C
\Documents and
Settings\eryiju\quicklisp\dists\quicklisp\software\cffi_0.
11.2\libffi\libffi-win32.c"
Output was:
Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.
restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [RETRY ] Retry #<STANDARD-CLASS CFFI-GROVEL::PROCESS-OP> on
#<GROVEL-FILE "
cffi-libffi" "libffi" "libffi">.
  1: [ACCEPT] Continue, treating #<STANDARD-CLASS CFFI-GROVEL::PROCESS-OP>
on #<
GROVEL-FILE "cffi-libffi" "libffi" "libffi"> as having been successful.
  2: [ABORT ] Give up on "cffi-libffi"
  3:          Exit debugger, returning to top level.
(CFFI-GROVEL::INVOKE #<unavailable argument> "-m32" "-I/Documents and
Settings/e
ryiju/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.2/" "-o" "C:\Documents
and S
ettings\eryiju\Application
Data\common-lisp\cache\sbcl-1.1.4.0.mswin.1288-9
0ab477-win-x86\C\Documents and
Settings\eryiju\quicklisp\dists\quicklisp\
software\cffi_0.11.2\libffi\libffi-win32.exe" "C:\Documents and
Settings\er
yiju\Application
Data\common-lisp\cache\sbcl-1.1.4.0.mswin.1288-90ab477-win-
x86\C\Documents and
Settings\eryiju\quicklisp\dists\quicklisp\software\c
ffi_0.11.2\libffi\libffi-win32.c")
0]
I noticed that .....\cffi_0.11.2\libffi\libffi-win32.c does NOT exist, even
in git repository.
What should I do now?
BTW: How to change gcc's location? I used grep in cffi's directory but
can't find it.
My MinGW was installed somewhere else, I had to copy it to c:/msys/1.0/bin
so that cffi-libffi can find it (I saw a "can't fork" error message before
doing so).
Thanks in advance.
- Rujia