[Ecls-list] si:load-foreign-module

[Luis Oliveira]

Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at common-lisp.net>
writes:

> I've noticed that SI:LOAD-FOREIGN-MODULE doesn't search in standard
> library directories, which in my opinion is an important feature of
> dlopen() in that it doesn't force me find the actual path of the library
> I'm loading, especially since the default paths vary across OSes(Linux,
> *BSD, OSX).

Just dropping a note to mention that this behaviour breaks pretty much
every CFFI library out there.  IMHO, it would be nice if ECL would let
dlopen() search for libraries in the usual places.  FWIW, this is what
all other Lisps do.

-- 
Luís Oliveira
http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/