"Alex Mizrahi" udodenko@users.sourceforge.net writes:

Hello, All!

looks like statement:

-- SLIME works with .. and with XEmacs version 21 on Unix, OSX, and Win32. --

is incorrect.

Yes, that is possible. I never tried with anything older than 21.4.

i have XEmacs 21.1.3 on Solaris x86 10 (because i found no newer binaries for this OS, and don't have C compiler to build new xemacs) and it refuses to work.

You have a box with a Lisp system but no C compiler? Man, Lisp is popular these days :)

it demanded lots of elisp files, after i copied them from newer xemacs (21.4.13) is said -- Symbol's chain of function indirections contains a loop: define-minor-mode -- which i don't know how to deal with..

In recent XEmacs versions, define-minor-mode is an alias for easy-mmode-define-minor-mode. If define-minor-mode is not fbound, SLIME defines the alias. It's possible that this aliasing doesn't work so well if you mix old and versions of easy-mmode. You could try to load easy-mmode and, if needed, define the alias before loading SLIME. Reini Urban mentioned something like this: http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2004-September/002435.html

If that fails, you probably have to bite the bullet and get a C compiler, fetch the XEmacs sources together with the Sumo tarballs, and build your own version. Or you could switch to Emacs. I know that SLIME works with Emacs 20.7 because that's what I'm using.

Helmut.