Steel Bank Common Lisp

Jay I. wrote:
> first question is how to install cffi? i've downloaded the tarball, run
> make and i guess i need to put it somewhere. but where? 

Are you familiar with asdf?

http://www.cliki.net/asdf

In a nutshell, each package has a source directory and a description 
file named PACKAGE.asd.  ASDF looks in a set of directory for symlinks 
to the PACKAGE.asd files.  The directories where asdf looks are given by 
the variable asdf:*central-registry*.  You probably want to put the 
cffi.asd symlink into one of the directories that's already set there.


-- 
Neil Dantam
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ndantam3

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:35:32 -0400, Neil T. Dantam wrote:

> Jay I. wrote:
>> first question is how to install cffi? i've downloaded the tarball, run
>> make and i guess i need to put it somewhere. but where?
> 
> Are you familiar with asdf?
> 
> http://www.cliki.net/asdf
> 
> In a nutshell, each package has a source directory and a description
> file named PACKAGE.asd.  ASDF looks in a set of directory for symlinks
> to the PACKAGE.asd files.  The directories where asdf looks are given by
> the variable asdf:*central-registry*.  You probably want to put the
> cffi.asd symlink into one of the directories that's already set there.

In addition, the OP might find clbuild helpful for installing libraries, 
including CFFI.

Tamas

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:46:09 -0000, Tamas K Papp <tkpapp@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:35:32 -0400, Neil T. Dantam wrote:
>
>> Jay I. wrote:
>>> first question is how to install cffi? i've downloaded the tarball, run
>>> make and i guess i need to put it somewhere. but where?
>>
>> Are you familiar with asdf?
>>
>> http://www.cliki.net/asdf
>>
>> In a nutshell, each package has a source directory and a description
>> file named PACKAGE.asd.  ASDF looks in a set of directory for symlinks
>> to the PACKAGE.asd files.  The directories where asdf looks are given by
>> the variable asdf:*central-registry*.  You probably want to put the
>> cffi.asd symlink into one of the directories that's already set there.
>
> In addition, the OP might find clbuild helpful for installing libraries,
> including CFFI.
>
> Tamas
>
>
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thanks a ton guys. i managed to install everything via clbuild. i just  
never used any external library before hence my stupid questions;)

jay