[Gardeners] CLISP in one EXE file and without console window for Windows

[Luís Oliveira]

Ignas Mikalajunas writes:
>   Nice thingie, sad that it doesn't really work with CFFI.
> FFI::FOREIGN-CALL-OUT just barfs something about foreign pointers
> comming from a previous lisp session. Can really advanced FFI stuff
> (callbacks, multiple libraries loaded when compiling etc.) be saved in
> memory image at all?

I can confirm that the CFFI/CLISP combo doesn't play well with saving
cores. The main problem is that we're not reloading the shared
libraries. You can work around that by calling cffi:load-foreign-library
on whatever libraries you are using with CFFI after you load the
image.

Callbacks won't work as well and I don't have any quick work-arounds for
you. Adding an ignore-errors to %defcallback in cffi-clisp.lisp where
the code is freeing the previous foreign function and redefining the
callbacks after loading the saved core should work.

I'll bug our CLISP expert about this. :-)

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Luís Oliveira
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