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 Quicklisp (recommended) or clbuild (for advanced uses) helpful in getting and managing CFFI and its dependencies.