[cffi-devel] CFFI fails to load libs on 64bit machine

[James Bielman]

Heiko Schroeter <schroete at iup.physik.uni-bremen.de> writes:

> i'am using the CFFI on 32-bit machines without any problem.
> Switching to a 64-bit platform breaks the loading of a lib.

[snip]

> Unable to load foreign library: libgslcblas.so
>    [Condition of type LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY-ERROR]
>  0: (CFFI::HANDLE-LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY-ERROR "libgslcblas.so" "Unable to load 
> foreign library: ~A" "libgslcblas.so")
>
> It doesn't matter if i use alternative 1 or 2.
>
> Is it a general matter that CFFI cannot handle 64-bit libs ?

No, my primary Linux box is an Ubuntu amd64 machine, and it does work
for me.  Just to make sure, you are using an x86-64 SBCL? (what does
(MACHINE-TYPE) return?)  Also, what about trying:

  (sb-alien:load-shared-object "libgslcblas.so")

directly?

James