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

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 1:45 AM Mark Evenson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/24/17 22:19, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 3:51 PM Mirko Vukovic <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> […]
>
> > After (require :abcl-asdf), I invoke (abcl-asdf:find-mvn) TWICE.
> > - First time, I get error about missing Maven executable
> > - Second time, it finds Maven executable.
> >
> > After that second time, CFFI loads cleanly.
> >
> > Summary of steps to load CFFI from abcl --no-init:
> > (require :abcl-contrib)
> > (require :abcl-asdf)
> > (abcl-asdf:find-mvn) ; issues warning about non-existant executable
> > (abcl-asdf:find-mvn) ; returns mvn.bat path
> > (load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")
> > (ql:quickload :cffi) ; works
>
> I'm not entirely sure why that works, but congratulations on getting
> something working!  I don't develop under Windows, mainly from a lack of
> free licensing terms that don't have to be renewed every 90 days, so
> sometimes the state of functionality running ABCL under MSFT gets a
> little more divergent than I would like.
>
> [The mechanism by which ABCL finds and executes Maven Aether][1] is
> being re-worked for abcl-1.5.0 to be more intelligent in providing
> restarts and diagnostics.
>
> I will endeavor to test abcl-1.5.0-dev to make sure these new changes
> work better for finding Maven under Windows than is the current state
> with abcl-1.4.0.
>
> [1]:
>
> https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/abcl/abcl/blob/master/contrib/abcl-build/build/maven.lisp
>
>
Thanks for your work on this.

Mirko