CFFI load-foreign-library problem

[Luís Oliveira]

You dynamically load a static library. Have a look at how CFFI's test suite
builds libtest.c.

HTH,
Luís

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 20:35 Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu> wrote:

> Hi
>
> sorry for the noise…  I have gotten confused (among other things) about
> the status of CFFI’s mailing lists.
>
> In any case, I have the following problem.
>
> This is in my "test" file:
>
>
> (cffi:define-foreign-library cl-autowrap-tests-lib
>   (t "cl-autowrap-test.a"))
>
>
> This is what I get on LWM.
>
> CL-USER 15 > (cffi:load-foreign-library
> 'cl-autowrap-tests::cl-autowrap-tests-lib)
>
> Error: Unable to load foreign library (CL-AUTOWRAP-TESTS-LIB).
>   Could not register handle for external module
> CL-AUTOWRAP-TESTS::CL-AUTOWRAP-TESTS-LIB:
>  no suitable image found.  Did find:
>
> /Users/marcoxa/Projects/Lang/CL/tests/cl-autowrap/cl-autowrap-test.a: file
> too short.
>   1 (continue) Try loading the foreign library again.
>   2 Use another library instead.
>   3 (abort) Return to level 0.
>   4 Return to top loop level 0.
>
> Type :b for backtrace or :c <option number> to proceed.
> Type :bug-form "<subject>" for a bug report template or :? for other
> options.
>
>
> It obviously appears that something may be amiss with the .a (static)
> generation.  My C/C++ fu us very rusty.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> MA
> --
> Marco Antoniotti
>
>
>
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