[Gsll-devel] cffi-grovel

[A.J. Rossini]

Jim -

You need a recent version of CFFI (more recent than Debian's packaged
versions), and then need to recompile.

Works nicely once you get to that stage.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Malcolm
Reynolds<malcolm.reynolds at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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