How does one declare non-lisp dependencies?

[Faré]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Ian Tegebo <ian.tegebo at gmail.com> wrote:
> While quickloading IOLib, g++ raised an error because it couldn't find
> "lfp.h".  After digging around a bit, I realized I needed to install
> libfixposix.  It seems like ASDF would already have a way to express this
> dependency, resulting in a clearer error message.
>
> If this doesn't already exist, what's the way to go about it?  A :before
> method on prepare-op for cffi components (or some such, I'm just bluffing
> here)?
>
ASDF itself is not going to support that out of the box, but CFFI's
ASDF support could be enhanced to better support C dependencies: a new
component and/or system class could be defined that describes the C
library you need, and/or how to build it.

That said, if you're looking for a build system that can handle
multilanguage builds including Common Lisp and C, try Bazel:
http://bazel.io/
https://github.com/qitab/bazelisp

And if you're unsatisfied with both ASDF and Bazel, maybe join me and
create the next great build system:
   https://ngnghm.github.io/blog/2016/04/26/chapter-9-build-systems/

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