[cffi-devel] support for .a libraries

[James Bielman]

Alexis Gallagher <public at alexisgallagher.com> writes:

> I was wondering if define-foreign-library can currently handle
> libraries that are in the "ar" archive format.

No, as far as I know, the ability to load static libraries is unique
to CMUCL and Lisp implementations that compile via C.

> I keep getting an error "Unable to load foreign library". I thought
> it wasn't looking in the right load path, but I tried specifying the
> absolute path, directly and with *foreign-libraries-directory*, but
> that didn't help.

You will need to load a shared library instead, if possible.  Most
Lisp FFIs are defined in terms of 'dlopen' or the equivalent.

James