I just ran into an interesting problem installing the Clojure-CLR 1.3 alpha (https://github.com/downloads/richhickey/clojure-clr/clojure-clr-1.3.0-alpha1-debug-4.0.zip) on an XP machine with .Net 4.0 installed. Downloading and unzipping the .zip file, then running Clojure.Main.exe at a command-line prompt, yielded the following exception:
Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Clojure.CljMain' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'clojure.lang.RT' threw an exception. ---> System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by default, so this load may be dangerous. If this load is not intended to sandbox the assembly, please enable the loadFromRemoteSources switch. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569 for more information. At that link, I found the following text which gave me a clue as to how to solve this: "If an application has been copied from the Web, it is flagged by Windows as being a Web application, even if it resides on the local computer. You can change that designation by changing the file properties, or you can use the <loadFromRemoteSources> element to grant the assembly full trust." The problem, restated, was that the .zip file was flagged when I downloaded it as coming from a remote source, and thus when I unzipped it, all the files inside were flagged likewise. The simplest solution was to right-click the .zip file *before* unzipping it, and in the Properties dialog, click the "Unblock" button at the bottom of the dialog. Then all the files in the .zip were considered clean by Windows and I didn't have to unblock each file individually. (There may be a command-line method to unblocking files in Windows, but I don't know what it is; I spend most of my time in Linux). It might be worth updating the wiki page (https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr/wiki/Getting-started-binary-distribution) to note that one extra step is required between downloading and unzipping if you're running the .Net 4.0 version of Clojure-CLR. -- Robin Munn robin.m...@gmail.com GPG key 0x4543D577 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
