[cells-gtk-devel] Building cells-gtk on Ubuntu7.10

[Greg Bennett]

Hullo there .. I am trying to build cells-gtk (from 
cells-gtk-2006-06-30) under CMUCL19a-release-20040728 on a Linux box 
running Ubuntu7.10 and following the INSTALL.TXT file which can with cells.

I fired up CMUCL, changed to the directory in which I had installed 
cells, and executed (load "load") as suggested.

The compilation raced happily along until:

; converted load-gtk-libs.
; compiling DEFUN LOAD-GTK-LIBS:
; Byte compiling file Top-level Form:

Unable to load foreign library: libgobject-2.0.so
  [Condition of type CFFI:LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY-ERROR]

I'm interested in cells for GUI work in porting a project from 
Macintosh/Windows to Linux and therefore I am having to teach myself 
about Linux too as an administrator - I do have a modicum of Unix 
experience as a user. The above message suggests either I am missing the 
library referred to, or I have failed to include it in the PATH which 
(load "load") is using to find things.

Thanks in advance for any and all advice about how to advance beyond 
this temporary (I hope) stumble.

Cheers /Greg Bennett