On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Fabrice Popineau < fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr> wrote:
However, I got a problem with dribble & slime on my windows xp:
- running clisp on cygwin, dribble works fine
- running clisp from slime on emacs-nt, dribble does not work.
Cygwin is always a PITA. Why don't you try some native win32 lisp : sbcl, ccl or personal lispworks ? Together with some native win32 emacs.
Best regards,
Fabrice
Calling cygwin's clisp from window's slime is a PITA. But I find it then easier to link clisp to stuff that has been developed on linux (that involves using cffi for example).
Anyways, I made some modest progress today, but hit another roadblock. I figured that if I call clisp from the windows command prompt as follows:
bash -c clisp
clisp is launched in a proper cygwin environment, and various commands work as expected. In particular (relevant for discussion that follows) all the paths are cygwin paths (meaning the usual unix-like ones, such as /usr, /usr/lib, /home, etc). Dribble works too.
I tried to use the same call with slime by specifying the inferior-lisp-program as
c:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe -c clisp
clisp starts OK, but swank breaks with
... ;; Loading file C:\Documents and Settings\977315\My Documents.swank.lisp ... ;; Loaded file C:\Documents and Settings\977315\My Documents.swank.lisp *** - OPEN: Directory #P"C:\DOCUME~1\977315\LOCALS~1\Temp\" does not exist The following restarts are available: ABORT :R1 Abort main loop
But that is not correct. clisp seems to live in the windows world, because all the paths are listed as windows paths. Whereas if I start clisp from a cygwin bash window, or using the command above, clisp uses cygwin's paths.
Confused ...
Any ideas from the slime wizards?