Defining dependencies

I like to partition up my projects into several libraries, so that
certain functionality can be easily reused.

When I build on top of those libraries, I can use 'load' (I do not use
require and provide since they are declared obsolete). However, what
is the best place to add the load ?

- In the application itself, at the beginning of the file ? This seems
to work for just executing an application. When compiling, however, it
seems I can get different problems :
- compiling the file in itself fails because of unresolved
dependencies.
- loading the libraries before the compilation solves this problem,
but this is a duplication.
- not including a load in the application requires the user to check
the file itself for dependencies.

The thing is that I am used to Perl's use and Python's import
statements, but these languages are not compiled. When I use Common
Lisp only as an interpreter, load works fine. It is just that when I
want to compile files, things go awry.

I know about asdf, but I am working cross-platform, and asdf's use of
symbolic links gives problems on Windows (CLISP under Windows/Linux,
and SBCL under Linux).

So, what gives ? When one does not use asdf or another build system,
what is the best recourse to take ?

Regards,

Jurgen

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