[Gsll-devel] Build error (fsbv)

[Jason Nielsen]

Hi Zach,

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Zach wrote:
> Looks like it can't find ffi.h.  I suppose that you should be able to point it to the correct location by changing the the form in the asd file from
> 
> (cffi-grovel:grovel-file "libffi" :pathname #+unix "libffi-unix")
> 
> to
> 
> (cffi-grovel:grovel-file "libffi" :pathname #+unix "libffi-unix" :cc-flags "-I/path/to/ffi/headers")

Thanks that fixed the problem.

> I know this since I have for a long time had to do this for any system that uses cffi-grovel, since I often have libraries in only somewhat standard
> places under OS X.  Since you are using common-lisp-controller, that means you are using a Linux, right?  If so, this should really work out of the box
> for you.  Whether the shortcoming is with FSBV or CFFI-GROVEL, I don't know (for instance, it would be nice if CFFI-GROVEL took a default cc-flags from
> the CFLAGS environment variable or something).

I am using Linux which is why I was a bit confused as it should work and 
was working until recently.  Either way it is working now so thanks again.

Jason

> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jason Nielsen <jdn at math.carleton.ca> wrote:
>       Hello all,
>
>       I just git pulled all the new goodness in gsll, fsbv etc. but am getting
>       error messages building fsbv:
>
>       ;
>       /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/init.fasl
>       written
>       ; compilation finished in 0:00:00.004
>       ; cc -m64 -fPIC -o
>       /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix
>       /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c
>       unhandled SIMPLE-ERROR in thread #<SB-THREAD:THREAD "initial thread"
>       RUNNING {10029DDD71}>:
>         External process exited with code 1.
>       Command was: "cc" "-m64" "-fPIC" "-o"
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix"
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c"
>       Output was:
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 7: cannot find include file: <ffi.h>
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 40: undefined symbol: FFI_OK
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 45: undefined symbol: FFI_BAD_TYPEDEF
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 50: undefined symbol: FFI_BAD_ABI
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 61: undefined symbol: FFI_DEFAULT_ABI
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 66: undefined symbol: FFI_SYSV
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 71: undefined symbol: FFI_UNIX64
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 79: undefined symbol: ffi_abi
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 126: incomplete struct/union/enum _ffi_type: sizeof()
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 131: undefined struct/union member: size
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 136: undefined struct/union member: alignment
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 141: undefined struct/union member: type
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 146: undefined struct/union member: elements
>       "/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c",
>       line 397: warning: implicit function declaration: memset
>       cc: acomp failed for
>       /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/local/home/jdn/work/lisp/fsbv/libffi-unix.c
>
>       I have cffi 0.10.5 installed and its test suite passes.  I also have
>       libffi-dev installed in the usual place so I'm a bit confused.
>
>       Cheers,
>       Jason
>
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