# cffi/cffi

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486 stars · 145 forks · Common Lisp · MIT

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/cffi/cffi
- Homepage: http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi
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## Description

CFFI, the Common Foreign Function Interface, purports to be a portable foreign function interface for Common Lisp. The CFFI library is composed of a Lisp-implementation-specific backend in the CFFI-SYS package, and a portable frontend in the CFFI package.

## Tags

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- [Foreign Function Interfaces](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/devtools/foreign-function-interfaces.md) — Portable interface for calling C functions from Lisp.