Re: How to load the jna jar file before cffi?

Hi Mark,

Thanks for responding.  See below for my replies

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:23 AM Mark Evenson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 5/10/17 22:24, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In order for CFFI to load, I need to load jna-4.2.2.jar.
> >
> > Right now, I have to do something like this:
>
>  stuff deleted


> Such "manual" loading of the JNA should be not be necessary in the
> default case of using ABCL-ASDF's Maven integration to download from the
> network, which is what [the ABCL specific portion of][cffi] does.
>
> [cffi]: https://github.com/cffi/cffi/blob/master/src/cffi-abcl.lisp#L37
>
> The
>
>   (require :jna)
>
> refers to the [jna.asd][] definition, which is then passed to ABCL-ASDF
> for resolution.
>
> [jna.asd]:
> https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/abcl/abcl/blob/master/contrib/mvn/jna.asd


I don't have jna.asd anywhere on my computer


>
>
> "All" that you need to do to get this to work is to have a version of
> Maven installed.  The [ABCL-ASDF][1] code should find the Maven
> executable in the JVM process path with which it will introspect the
> necessary operations needed to use the Mavane Aether infrastructure.
>
> [1]:
>
> https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/abcl/abcl/blob/master/contrib/abcl-asdf/maven-embedder.lisp
>
> To go forward with your problems:
>
> 1.  Do you have Maven installed or is there some reason in your
> deployment scenario that you do not wish to use it?
>

I do have Maven installed and in path, as given by mvn.bat -v .

I looked at abcl-asdf in the provided link and did some checking from
within ABCL.
The outputs of abcl-asdf::find-mvn, abcl-asdf::mvn-version were OK.
Interestingly, I don't have abcl-asdf:mvn-home defined.  Is my asdf
3.1.7.27 obsolete?


> 2.  Without trying to load CFFI, does the following form load JNA from a
> fresh REPL?
>
>   (require :abcl-contrib)
>
returns NIL

  (require :jna)
>

Triggers error:
Java exception 'java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jna.Native'.

My jna is under my home directory in
"c:/Users/977315/.m2/repository/net/java/dev/jna/jna/4.2.2/jna-4.2.2.jar"

That directory is non in CLASSPATH

Thanks,

Mirko