[cffi-devel] trouble loading dll via cff:use-foreign-library

[Mirko Vukovic]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Luís Oliveira <luismbo at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On 18/02/2008, Mirko.Vukovic at gmail.com <Mirko.Vukovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > Unable to load any of the alternatives:
>  >  >    ("/bin/cyggsl-0.dll")
>  >  >    [Condition of type LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY-ERROR]
>  >
>  >  What does (cffi:load-foreign-library "/bin/cyggsl-0.dll") tell you?
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Luís Oliveira
>  >  http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/
>  >
>
>  Luis,
>
>  Doing a (cffi:load gives:
>
>  EVAL: variable LIBGSL has no value
>    [Condition of type SYSTEM::SIMPLE-UNBOUND-VARIABLE]
>
>  (I am doing this in emacs+slime)
>
>  I tried (type-of libgsl) at the top level and got the same message.
>
>  But doing (cffi:use-...) still gives the same message (unable to load).
>
>  gsl comes with documentation.  I am trying to build its simple example
>  in c using the shareable dll to verify that it is working.  It will
>  take me a bit to get that right (I'm not fluent in c)
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Mirko
>

ok, I managed to compile a little c example and succesfully link
against the shareable dll.  It works.

Mirko