[plt-scheme] foreign.ss dll path

Thanks!

I used (this-expression-source-directory), and that almost worked -
(ffi-lib ...) finds the dll, but unfortunately, the dll tries to load
*another* dll in the same directory. Do you have any idea how I can
get around that?

Yoav

On 10/14/05, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Oct 13, Yoav Goldberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Where does ffi-lib look for the .dll file?
> >
> > When I make a collection using foreign.ss, where should I put the dlls
> > and related files so that they will be found when using the collection
> > with (require (lib ...)) ?
>
> It will use the OS facility (for example, dlopen on Unix tries to look
> in your DL_LIBRARY_PATH) and in the current directory.  If you want to
> distribute binary libraries with Scheme code, then it is best to use
> build-path with (this-expression-source-directory) to get a name that
> is relative to the source name.
>
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