and by the way, test.lisp, as well as csound5.lisp are broken. I did some 
fixes,
but found the problems I listed here.

At 15:54 17/08/2006, you wrote:
>As far as I can tell, CFFI seems to be the direction the Lisp community is 
>going, somewhat in the manner of a herd of cats, so I think we should try 
>to make CFFI work.
>
>I want this because I want to use Common Music and David Cope's code with 
>the Csound API, but really, we are trying to do the work of the Lisp 
>computer music community here. If we can get Linux distributions to 
>install Csound 5, then the Lispers may be forced to catch up.
>
>Did you try the test.lisp program in the examples directory? This does 
>take a .csd parameter. Note that the C string is made into a Lisp string 
>before passing it.
>
>Regards,
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
> >From: Victor Lazzarini 
> >Sent: Aug 17, 2006 8:17 AM
> >To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> >Subject: [Cs-dev] API, CFFI and Clisp
> >
> >Continuing on with my tests, I found that there must be something
> >unstable with CFFI (and CLisp). With it I can call functions with a single
> >CSOUND*  parameter, but if I add another argument whatsoever, there is a
> >crash (but I don't know where).
> >
> >With a single CSOUND * parameter, I can instantiate and run
> >csound (with a hard-wired path to a CSD). But it is frustrating, because
> >I can't pass the hurdle of calling API functions as in Python, Tcl or
> >Java.
> >
> >Is there an alternative for CFFI? Does anyone know?
> >
> >Victor Lazzarini
> >Music Technology Laboratory
> >Music Department
> >National University of Ireland, Maynooth
> >
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