Maybe I should get my project up in a repo, but it looks like I have the dependency listed. Here is my package's .asd named cl-i3.asd:

(asdf:defsystem #:cl-i3
  :name "cl-i3"
  :description "A replacement for i3status written in Common Lisp."
  :author "Brandon Hale <bthaleproductions@gmail.com>"
  :license "GPLv3"
  :version "1.0"
  :depends-on (#:cl-ansi-text #:trivial-battery #:str)
  :components ((:file "main")))

And the top portion of my main.lisp:

(ql:quickload :trivial-battery)
(ql:quickload :str)
;; allows for colors to be printed
(ql:quickload :cl-ansi-text)
(defpackage :cl-i3
  (:use #:common-lisp))

I am definitely not an expert on Common Lisp packages, but this does load up in slime on my machine when I do a 

(ql:quickload :cl-i3)

with ecl 21.2.1-3 from Arch Linux.


I need to look at the well-commented example again to see what I'm doing wrong methinks.

Brandon Hale

On 2/10/23 01:07, Daniel Kochmański wrote:
Hello Brandon,


------- Original Message -------
On Friday, February 10th, 2023 at 00:20, Brandon Hale <bthaleproductions@gmail.com> wrote:



Hello all,

I apologize if this is either the wrong place to get help with ecl, or if this is asked all of the time. 

this is the right place, don't worry :)



I've written a small replacement for i3status with common lisp and want to use ecl to make a binary so when i3wm loads, it just loads the cl-i3status binary. I've looked at the ecl documentation online and it suggests doing something like this:

(ql:quickload :cl-i3)

(asdf:make-build :cl-i3

                 :type :program

                 :move-here #P"/home/brandon/Programming/lisp/cl-i3/"

                 :prologue-code '(require 'asdf))

So, I run this and the binary appears. However, when I try to run it, I get this output:

;;; Loading #P"/usr/lib/ecl-21.2.1/asdf.fas"
;;; Computing Hangul syllable names
Condition of type: MISSING-COMPONENT
Component "str" not found

Available restarts:

1. (RETRY) Retry ASDF operation.
2. (CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY) Retry ASDF operation after resetting the configuration.

Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL 0x557ade1c2f80>.


        

        
I imagine it is just because of my use of quicklisp packages, but how do I compile the packages into the binary?


      

      
this error message seems to suggest that you use a system "str" without declaring it in dependencies. In your
project file my-project.asd add

(defsystem "my-project"
  ...
  :depends-on (... "str")
  ...)

depending on what you want from your project you may not need (require 'asdf) in the prologue code. Also you
may consider passing :monolithic t flag to make-build.

Make sure that you study well-commented example in ecl source repository under examples/asdf_with_dependence/.

Last but not least make sure that you use the latest release (currently it is 21.2.1) or a build from the branch
"develop" if you are not afraid of cutting your self on the bleeding edge ;).

If none of these advises helps then please try to minimize the test case to the minimum (basically an asd system
with a singly stub file and all dependencies you need) and make an issue ticket on gitlab

https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues

mind that such action requires registration on the gitlab platform.



      

        
Thank you very much for any help you can offer,

Brandon Hale


      

      
Best regards,
Daniel

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