Peter Seibel writes:
Alain.Picard@memetrics.com writes:
I'm using latest CVS slime + Lispworks on Linux.
Hey Alain, I have no help for you with your question but maybe you can answer this for me: how do you connect SLIME and Lispworks? I have the trial edition but can't figure out how to start it as a regular command line program which is what I assume I want. Or do you launch the IDE, start the swank server, and then connect to it?
I don't know if this will work for you, as I use the professional edition. What I do is, I deliver a "console executable" which preloads a bunch of our system; basically, our delivery script looks like this:
- load corba - load sql - load patches - load local fixes - load basic system stuff which never changes
then (defvar *image-name* "XOS:BIN;lw-console") (save-image *image-name* :environment :with-tty-listener :clean-down nil)
Then, in my .lispworks file, I have (load "/home/ap/Lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp") (load "/home/kooks/dev-tools/Lispworks/asdf") (pushnew "/usr/share/common-lisp/systems/" asdf:*central-registry*)
Then I load slime pretty normally (as far as I know of what is "normal") with the only custom thing being: (setq inferior-lisp-program "/home/kooks/XOS/Bullseye/bin/lw-console")
(which is the full path on my box to *image-name* above).
The console starts up; brings up the GUI podium, loads swank, and connects to emacs.
It's _marvelous_; compared to ILISP, I'm in hog heaven. I get both emacs AND all the fancy inspectors/browsers built into LW.
I think the key is having an image with :environment :with-tty-listener this is what causes it to look like a "regular tty" lisp from emacs's POV.
BTW; a while back, none of this was working, and what I did then was - launch my console in a shell - manually execute something like: (defun start-slime-listener () (mp:process-run-function "Swank" () #'create-swank-server 4005 :spawn)) (start-slime-listener)
then in emacs do M-x slime-connect. Not as convenient, but it did work.
Hope this helps.
--ap