<in cffi-allegro.lisp>

In Allegro 6.2 (and presumably all earlier versions), the keyword argument :FOREIGN to function LOAD is not defined. So perhaps you want something more like:

(defun %load-foreign-library (name) "Load the foreign library NAME." ;; ACL 8.0 honors the :FOREIGN option and always tries to foreign load ;; the argument. However, previous versions do not and will only ;; foreign load the argument if its type is a member of the ;; EXCL::*LOAD-FOREIGN-TYPES* list. Therefore, we bind that special ;; to a list containing whatever type NAME has. (let ((excl::*load-foreign-types* (list (pathname-type (parse-namestring name))))) (ignore-errors (load name #+(and allegro-version>= (version>= 7 0)) :foreign #+(and allegro-version>= (version>= 7 0)) t))))

Andrew