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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Liam Healy lhealy@common-lisp.net wrote:
I'm not sure what you're looking for here, but I've never had "GSL libraries not loadable" (not sure what you mean here; not found in the path?). Doesn't the form (cffi:use-foreign-library libgsl) at the end of init/init.lisp fail with some kind of reasonable error message if it doesn't find the libraries? What else is needed?
Liam
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Mirko Vukovic mirko.vukovic@gmail.com wrote: ...
Good idea. Here is another one that would be useful even for the pros. A gsll-probe, that would probe the system to make sure that gsll is loadable. The main thing that comes to mind, and that can look scary to a newbie is if the gsl libraries are not loadable.
I was thinking of absolute Newbies who get horrified when lisp drops into a debugger. A way to deal with that might be to use exception handling with `gentler' messages.
And other than finding libraries, sometimes the libraries are not loadable: with SBCL1.0.34, I got an `offset' error (don't remember exactly what), and with 1.0.37, I could not load 64-bit libraries.
Anyways, I don't mean to throw this task to you. I'll think about an implementation, and if I come up with something sensible, I will post it here.
Mirko