I am trying mcclim and cffi from Debian unstable in SBCL. I cannot load gtkairo<br><br><br>CL-USER(1): (require :mcclim)<br><br>; loading system definition from /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/flexichain.asd<br>; into #<PACKAGE "ASDF0">
<br>; registering #<SYSTEM :FLEXICHAIN {1004742611}> as FLEXICHAIN<br>; loading system definition from<br>; /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/spatial-trees.asd into #<PACKAGE "ASDF0"><br>; registering #<SYSTEM :SPATIAL-TREES {1004A49081}> as SPATIAL-TREES
<br>; loading system definition from /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/clx.asd into<br>; #<PACKAGE "ASDF0"><br>; registering #<SYSTEM CLX {1004BCF731}> as CLX<br>NIL<br>CL-USER(2): (require :clim-gtkairo)
<br><br>; compiling file "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/mcclim/Backends/gtkairo/gtk-ffi.lisp" (written 03 MAR 2007 07:09:51 AM):<br>; compiling (IN-PACKAGE :CLIM-GTKAIRO)<br>; compiling (CFFI:DEFCTYPE UTF8-STRING ...)
<br>debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {1004273D61}>:<br> Unknown CFFI type: (:STRING :ENCODING :UTF-8).<br><br>Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
<br><br>restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):<br> 0: [RETRY ] Retry performing #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL {1005A90811}> on<br> #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "gtk-ffi" {10086C5801}>.
<br> 1: [ACCEPT] Continue, treating #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL {1005A90811}> on<br> #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "gtk-ffi" {10086C5801}> as having been<br> successful.<br> 2: [ABORT ] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
<br><br>(CFFI::PARSE-TYPE (:STRING :ENCODING :UTF-8))<br>0] <br><br>ii cl-cffi 20061013-1 The Common Foreign Function Interface for Common Lisp<br>ii cl-mcclim 0.9.5.dfsg.1-1
Common Lisp graphic user interface toolkit<br><br><br><br>Is the CFFI too old here?<br><br>Liam<br><br>