Frank Goenninger wrote:

Am 05.12.2007 um 14:59 schrieb Andy Chambers:

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Hi,

What's the latest instructions for getting cello up and running? The install-notes in cvs refer to files and dlls that don't exist in the repo. Also it says to use the cells included but there is no cells included. Is there another repo/zip somewhere that is better to start from?

I saw some stuff in the mailing list about people porting to cmucl. Did anything come of that in the end? I'd like to try to get it working on sbcl/linux so any pointers would be appreciated.

Cheers, Andy

Hi Andy -

roughly (!) the following steps worked for me:

Very nice!

Part I: Sound

1. Get OpenAL (www.openal.org), compile, and install it.

Part II: Fonts

1. Get FreeType (http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/index.html),

compile, and install it. 2. Get FTGL (http://ftgl.wiki.sourceforge.net/), compile, and install it.

Part III: Imaging

(This all depends on what type of images you want to be able to load with GraphicsMagick - so it largely depends on what you choose)

(order matters here ...)

1. Get JPEG lib (ftp.uu.net:/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz or

ftp.simtel.net:/pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics/jpegsr6b.zip) - see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part2/section-15.html for more info.

• Compile and install it.

2. Get LIBPNG (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html), compile, and

install it. 3. Get LittleCMS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcms), compile .... blabla - you get it ;-) 4. Get GHOSTSCRIPT (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=1897&package_id=108733) 5. Get LIBTIFF (http://www.libtiff.org/) ... 6. Get GraphicsMagick (http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/)

Part IV: Cells

1. Get latest Cells (Cells 3) from CVS via anonymous access from common-lisp.net:22/project/cells/cvsroot co cells
2. Make sure you are able to load Cells via ASDF into your Lisp
3. Make sure you can load and run the Cells Tests (load package cells-

test via ASDF)

Part V: Celtk

1. Get a Tcl/Tk distribution of at least version 8.5 ! (ActiveState has

a beta version that is ok: http://www.activestate.com/Products/activetcl/beta_download.plex) 2. Get latest Celtk from CVS via anonymous access from common-lisp.net:22/project/cells/cvsroot co celtk 3. Make sure you are able to Celtk via ASDF. 4. Make sure you can run the demos in Celtk (see file lotsa- widgets.lisp)

Part VI: Cello (finally ...)

Do we need to pull down the Tcl/Tk Togl widget at this point? I also grabbed Snack, or I think I did, not sure if that turned out be part of the standard distro. Ah, then there is Tile, again not sure if that is standard now.

1. Get latest Cello (Cello 2.0) from CVS via anonymous access from common-lisp.net:22/project/cello/cvsroot co cello
2. Locate the sub-directory ftgl-int and compile the C DLL/Library in

there 3. Locate all *config* files and adapt path names given in there for your environment 4. Load Cello via ASDF.

Now you should be there. If there is any "How do I do this ?" in the list above I might warn you that this whole process easily can take a week when doing it the first time (it took me four weeks to get a clean build when first porting Cello to Linux in 2003).

At one point it was possible to divide and conquer the overall effort by first getting the demo in cl-opengl to run, than in any order cl-ftgl and cl-magick and cl-openal, and then finally run the lighting panel.

Cello is no "product" yet - so there's a fair amount of try and error in this...

Hope this helps - wishing you success

Again, nice work.

kt