Objective

Make Common Lisp software easier to use by newbies, and help others customize shared object use in Lisp program delivery.

These are the .so, .dll, and .mylib files representing functions and data in C/C++. These C/C++ libraries are required by many common lisp systems available on quicklisp.

Convince others to create an easy customization method to find shared object files.

The system CL+SSL allows the programmer to customize the location of required shared object files.

The CL+SSL/config system works for me on Windows. It is so simple it is likely workable for most external library interfaces to C/C++ libraries.

This is about giving the programmer the OPTION to select the external C/C++ rather than letting the OS make that choice, and correcting when the OS makes the wrong choice.