Hey Binh,

it is not that the function REQUIRE is not available, it is that it doesn't know /where/ to look for sockets.fas. I see that you have unix pathnames, so ecl should not expect the flat structure. Did you pass "--prefix=/usr/local/" to configure (or something in this spirit)? If so, did you perform make install afterwards? If so, then require should be able to find sockets.fas in /usr/local/lib/ecl/... , and if not - it can't find it. The same applies to the module "ASDF", so I think that having installation with known pathnames should fix all your issues on that front.

Alternatively you may specify that ASDF and SOCKETS are builtin (see ./configure --help for details).

As the last resort, if you want to push in the same direction you've already started - load ASDF.fas the same way you've loaded SOCKETS.fas (it should be in the same directory) - that will ensure ASDF 3.1.8.

Best regards,
Daniel

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------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 at 1:55 PM, Binh Nguyen <nguyen1024@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear ECL Community,

Could you let me know how to do the following, please?

- How to load file "quicklisp.lisp" in an embedded instance of ECL
- How to make the function REQUIRE available in an embedded instance of ECL
- How to load ASDF 3 or newer in an embedded instance of ECL

I am able to load file "quicklisp.lisp" when I run "/usr/local/ecl.exe".

I saw that there is an "ecl-quicklisp.lisp" but I'd like to learn how to load non-ECL Quicklisp.

I am running ECL 21.2.1. that I compiled with MSYS MinGW x86.

The first error that comes up is that the function REQUIRE is not available.

> (load "quicklisp.lisp")

;;; Loading "C:/msys64/home/Admin/quicklisp.lisp"
Debugger received error of type: SIMPLE-ERROR
Module error: Don't know how to REQUIRE SOCKETS.
Error flushed.

So I manually loaded SOCKETS.

> (load #P"C:/msys64/usr/local/sockets.fas")

;;; Loading "C:/msys64/usr/local/sockets.fas"
#P"C:/msys64/usr/local/sockets.fas"

Then I tried again and I was able to progress further.

> (load "quicklisp.lisp")

;;; Loading "C:/msys64/home/Admin/quicklisp.lisp"

==== quicklisp quickstart 2015-01-28 loaded ====

To continue with installation, evaluate: (quicklisp-quickstart:install)

For installation options, evaluate: (quicklisp-quickstart:help)

#P"C:/msys64/home/Admin/quicklisp.lisp"
> (quicklisp-quickstart:install)

Debugger received error of type: SIMPLE-ERROR
Quicklisp has already been installed. Load #P"C:/msys64/home/Admin/quicklisp/setup.lisp" instead.
Error flushed.
Bu the following error appeared that I don't know how to solve.

> (load #P"C:/msys64/home/Admin/quicklisp/setup.lisp")

;;; Loading "C:/msys64/home/Admin/quicklisp/setup.lisp"
Debugger received error of type: SIMPLE-ERROR
Could not load ASDF "3.0" or newer
Error flushed.

I tried loading the other ".fas" files in "/usr/local" such as "asdf.fas" but that did not help.

I checked the *features* variable in both versions but they were the same.

$ ./a.exe
...
Condition of type: INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT
Console interrupt.
Available restarts:

1. (CONTINUE) CONTINUE
...
> (print-list *features*)
(WALKER ECL-BYTECMP CDR-1 CDR-5 FORMATTER CDR-7 WSOCK ECL-WEAK-HASH LITTLE-ENDIAN LONG-LONG UINT64-T UINT32-T UINT16-T COMPLEX-FLOAT LONG-FLOAT UNICODE DFFI CLOS-STREAMS CMU-FORMAT WINDOWS WIN32 MINGW32 ECL-PDE DLOPEN CLOS THREADS BOEHM-GC ANSI-CL COMMON-LISP IEEE-FLOATING-POINT PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAMES CDR-14 PREFIXED-API FFI I686 COMMON ECL)

$ /usr/local/ecl.exe
...
> (print-list *features*)
(WALKER ECL-BYTECMP CDR-1 CDR-5 FORMATTER CDR-7 WSOCK ECL-WEAK-HASH LITTLE-ENDIAN LONG-LONG UINT64-T UINT32-T UINT16-T COMPLEX-FLOAT LONG-FLOAT UNICODE DFFI CLOS-STREAMS CMU-FORMAT WINDOWS WIN32 MINGW32 ECL-PDE DLOPEN CLOS THREADS BOEHM-GC ANSI-CL COMMON-LISP IEEE-FLOATING-POINT PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAMES CDR-14 PREFIXED-API FFI I686 COMMON ECL)

Best regards,

Binh Nguyen