On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Martin Mallinson < martin@mallinson.homeip.net> wrote:

CL-PDF looks very useful for me. Thanks Marc and the team at ILC2014 for this and all the great info!

Ok, now to use CL-PDF on Allegro I SVN'ed it from https://github.com/mbattyani/cl-pdf and tried to build it with acl-load the essence of which is

(defparameter *cl-pdf-home* excl:*source-pathname*)

(defun cl-file (x) (tpl:do-command "cl" (namestring (merge-pathnames x *cl-pdf-home*))))

(eval-when (load) (mapc #'cl-file '("defpackage" "cl-zlib-small" "pdf" "pdf-base" "pdf-geom" )))

note the lower case do-command "cl" not "CL" since I am in modern mode ACL 9.0 64 bit

Note that Allegro 9 should come with ASDF 3, which can load cl-pdf:

(require "asdf") (asdf:load-system "cl-pdf")

If it doesn't provide the latest ASDF 3.1.3, it's a good time to file a bug: (asdf:asdf-version) Though if it provides 3.0.1 or later, that's not too bad.

Anyhow it does not work, since cl-zlib-small.lisp tells me to: (defvar *libgz-path* "/usr/lib/libz.so" "Set this variable to point to the location of the zlib library (libz.so or zlib.dll) on your system.")

which begs the question of where is zlib.dll for 64 bits? It is not on my machine and I cant seem to find it on the WWW... Any LISPer's using CL-PDF on ACL WIndows 64bit who have solved this problem? Any help much appreciated...

Have you tried these pages? Googling for gzip dll windows:

http://www.gzip.org/ http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm

In the worst case, you should be able to compile from source...

PS: I loved your interventions at ILC 2014. Nice to meet you!

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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:10:53 -0700 From: Martin Mallinson martin@mallinson.homeip.net

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Ok, now to use CL-PDF on Allegro I SVN'ed it from https://github.com/mbattyani/cl-pdf and tried to build it ...

1. Was there any particular reason for not using quicklisp? There should be no "try to build" with quicklisp - it's supposed to Just Work.

(ql:quickload :cl-pdf)

2. cl-pdf.asd (which is what quickload will load) gives you a choice of compressions. Salza is implemented in lisp.

;;;Choose the zlib implementation you want to use (only one!) (eval-when (:load-toplevel :compile-toplevel :execute) ;;(pushnew :use-salza2-zlib *features*) ;;(pushnew :use-salza-zlib *features*) ;;(pushnew :use-uffi-zlib *features*) ;;(pushnew :use-abcl-zlib *features*) (pushnew :use-no-zlib *features*) )

Hey Presto! Escape that Library Hell!

- nick