2 Installation

CFFI can be obtained through one of the following means available through its website:

• official release tarballs
• git repository

In addition, you will need to obtain and install the following dependencies:

• Babel, a charset encoding/decoding library.
• Alexandria, a collection of portable public-domain utilities.
• trivial-features, a portability layer that ensures consistent *features* across multiple Common Lisp implementations.

Furthermore, if you wish to run the testsuite, RT is required.

You may find mechanisms such as clbuild (recommended) or ASDF-Install (not as recommendable) helpful in getting and managing CFFI and its dependencies.