Hello,
swank listens by default only for localhost connections (for a good reason!). To force it to listen for connections from specific host other than 127.0.0.1 you have to bind swank::*loopback-interface* to it. For instance to listen for connections from everywhere on port 4005 you could use functions from https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/ecl/ecl-android/blob/master/assets/lisp/etc/u...
(defun start-swank () (format t "Starting swank server~%") (mp:process-run-function "SLIME-listener" (lambda () (let ((swank::*loopback-interface* "0.0.0.0")) (swank:create-server :port 4005 :dont-close t ;; :style nil #|:spawn|# )))))
(defun stop-swank () (format t "Stopping swank server~%") (swank:stop-server 4005) (format t ";; Swank off-line~%"))
Note, that newest slime/swank should support :spawn communication style just fine with ECL (my PR was merged lately). In that case it should be enough to call create-server which won't block (note that in the example above we create separate thread for that).
Since ECL isn't run from CLI but as shared library, it is useful to define implementation for implementation program (don't remeber for sure, but I think lack of this caused some problems later)
(defimplementation lisp-implementation-program () "Return the argv[0] of the running Lisp process, or NIL." "org.lisp.ecl")
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Daniel
On 19.08.2017 16:32, PR wrote:
Hi again,
so, the progress of the new android REPL is going well, it already runs Quicklisp and can start swank, and right there I'm stuck now: How does one connect from the local computer to the android device, which is running the SLIME-listener?
They are connected via USB, and the device is /not/ rooted.
Since this is certainly of public interest, I ask here, thanks for any help! Below the link to the current APK of the REPL (you'll need android version >= 4.1, API >= 16):
http://lights-of-holiness.eu/tmp/repl.apk
After launching the app, do (there is currently no feedback of the progress, sorry):
(quicklisp) ; should take less than a minute, with a fast internet connection (start-swank) ; same as above (needs to byte-compile all 'contribs')
If I run:
(mp:all-processes)
it lists the running "SLIME-listener" process, so it seems to work...
Thanks for any help!
Paul