[Gsll-devel] cffi-grovel

[Malcolm Reynolds]

Hi Jim,

One option you do have is to acquire asdf-install, which should
automagically setup all the dependencies for you. I tend to think it's
a better idea to do things manually though, especially when you're
starting out, because then you get a better grasp of how things work.
I was in your position (new to doing any serious work in common lisp
and new to gsll and asdf) only a few months ago, and I think the time
setting up asdf and installing stuff manually was time well spent.

To address your specific problem, are all the libraries you're working
with at their latest versions? I don't bother getting tarballs any
more, I found pretty much every library I've been interested in has a
publically accessible repository for either darcs, git, svn or
something similar. Get fresh pulls of at least gsll and cffi, delete
any .fasl files you might have kicking around, and try again.

I think you are right about cffi-grovel now being integrated into cffi
- I have a relatively fresh setup that I put together when I
recompiled sbcl a few weeks ago, and I have no .asd file for
cffi-grovel and indeed if I try and do (asdf:operate asdf:load-op
:cffi-grovel) I get an error that the component cannot be found.

Hope this helps,

Malcolm

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Jim<jim_garrett at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is my first post to this list.  I've just installed gsll and I'm
> very much looking forward to using it for numeric programming in Common
> Lisp.  Thanks in advance for gsll!
>
> However, I can't seem to get it going.  I'm somewhat new to Common Lisp,
> and very new to asdf.  And I find that much Common Lisp documentation
> attempts to be so general that it is mostly useful for people who
> already know the answers.  I suspect I am missing something very simple,
> and has nothing to do with gsll so much as setting up packages in Common
> Lisp.  Nevertheless, I'm not sure whom to ask.
>
> I'm running SBCL with SLIME under Ubuntu 8.10.  I followed the gsll
> installation instructions under "With Debian or Ubuntu", and had no
> apparent errors.  I started SLIME and entered "(asdf:operate
> 'asdf:load-op :gsll)" and obtained the error "component "cffi-grovel"
> not found".
>
> It appears that I do have cffi, and all the information I can find about
> cffi-grovel indicates that it is now integrated with cffi.  So I can't
> add a package but I can't seem to use what I have.  What should I do?
>
> Once again, please keep in mind that I am just a beginner regarding asdf
> and cffi.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jim Garrett
> Baltimore, Maryland, USA
>
>
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