How to load a dylib from a particular place

[Luís Oliveira]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Jim Newton <jimka.issy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> (cffi:load-foreign-library
> "/usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16_1/lib/libcairo.dylib")
>
> This seems indeed to load the dylib, but later my system calls
> (CFFI::LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY-PATH :LIBCAIRO "libcairo.dylib" NIL)
> which apparently does not realise :LIBCAIRO is already loaded, so it
> tries to load cairo again but from
> /usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.14.6_1/lib/libcairo.2.dylib

Perhaps <https://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/manual/html_node/_002aforeign_002dlibrary_002ddirectories_002a.html>
may help? Push #p"/usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16_1/lib/" onto that
variable.

Cheers,

-- 
Luís Oliveira
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