On 8/27/07, Ken Perry whistler@blinksoft.com wrote:
Ok I have all the packages but it still says it can't find asdf. I am betting that I have to do something other than just the darcs. How do I go about loading the asdf library?
Ken,
It depends on the CL implementation, but for CLISP it is a matter of loading the asdf.lisp source file. For example:
(load "c:/path/to/asdf.lisp")
I'm not sure why the direct path to the file in CVS is failing, but in lieu of that, you'll need to check out the cclan project from CVS and then load asdf.lisp from there.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cclan
is the main project page, and which has instructions for using CVS to check out a local working directory, inside of which you'll find asdf.lisp.
Many people, including myself, put the above load command in the init file that is read when Lisp starts up. For CLISP, you can create a file called .clisprc.lisp in the default location returned by the USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME function, which is probably something similar to c:\Documents and Settings\username on your Windows machine. Or you can name the file anything you want and place it anywhere you want, and use the -i command-line option when you start CLISP.
The command-line interface is documented here:
http://www.podval.org/~sds/clisp/impnotes/clisp.html
There is a mailing list for CLISP that you can subscribe to here:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-list
From your other email, the REPL is the read-eval-print-loop which is the basic
interface for interacting with the Lisp system. Every Lisp implementation offers a REPL, but you can also use other interfaces, such as SLIME. That's an Emacs-based interface that you'll want to investigate sometime in the near future.
You mentioned downloading ImageMagick-6.3.5-6-Q8-windows-dll.exe but I think you want ImageMagick-6.3.5-6-Q16-windows-dll.exe instead. The difference is the latter is the Q16 version rather than the Q8 version. I haven't tested with this newer revision of ImageMagick and can't guarantee it will work, so please send bug reports if you run into problems.
Finally, I should mention that you're tackling a lot all at once, given that you're a relative newcomer to Common Lisp. Many projects, and admittedly mine is one of them, assume a certain amount of experience with the language. It's not ideal, but that's the situation today, and hopefully the approachability of project's like mine will get better with time.
Good luck!