[cells-gtk-devel] Unable to load foreign library: X with cells-gtk-2006-06-30, SBCL, and FreeBSD

[Peter Denno]

On Saturday 09 September 2006 05:59, rd wrote:
> I posted the following to comp.lang.lisp a few days
> ago, and it was suggested that this list or the cffi
> devel list would be more topical (and so here I am).
>

You came to the right place (this time). Talking to someone about on cffi 
about FreeBSD6  is also a good idea. If you go there and learn anything, 
please let us know.

>
>
> I'm very inexperienced with Lisp, and I'm trying to
> poke around with cells-gtk.

Playing with cells-gtk probably isn't the easiest way to learn lisp, but then 
doing so sound like something I'd try too ;^)

>
> I'm using SBCL-0.9.0 on FreeBSD6, installed from the
> ports system.  I downloaded cells-gtk-2006-06-30 and
> followed the INSTALL instructions.
>
> The test TEST-GTK:GTK-DEMO fails with one of the two
> following errors (they alternate):
>
>       Unable to load foreign library: libgthread-2.0.so
>       Unable to load foreign library: libglib-2.0.so

Can you tell me what is returned when you evaluate this? :

(cffi-sys::%load-foreign-library "/usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so") 


>
>
> I manually did
>
>       (cffi:load-foreign-library :GLIB)
>
> and it returned T, although it complains about undefined
> aliens.  After I did this, GTK-DEMO will only fail because
> it can't load libgthread.
>
> All of these libraries are in /usr/local/lib.  Any help
> would be appreciated.
>
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-- 
- Best regards,
   Peter