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

[James Bielman]

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

>> 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:
>
> This might be the error:
> (machine-type) returns "X86" !!! Funny enough though.

Yeah, you can't load 64-bit libraries into a 32-bit SBCL, but if you
have the 32-bit libraries (in /usr/lib32 or /usr/local/lib32 probably)
then CFFI should find them.

James