My original task was getting this application to run on my windows machine and then sending this simple example to a friend or installing it on a machine a work.
Here is how far I have gotten thanks to all those gardeners who have given me tips.
1. Installing LISP
I choose Lispbox. It contains: clisp/emacs/slime
-Peter Seibel Lispbox setup is great
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lispbox/lispbox.html
But I still had some issues with setup, but this thread at www.codecomments.com helped:
http://www.codecomments.com/Lisp/message688829.html
Task: Installing LISP(done)
Sidenote: I do find emacs/slime/clisp buffer ackward and confusing for writing code. I write most of my code in Lispworks( http://www.lispworks.com/). Save the file and then use emacs/slime/clisp to compile. Maybe because I have not completly grasp (got use to) the key acrobatics. Maybe a nice windows IDE appeals so much to me because of my old Visual Basic background. But the power of emacs/slime/clisp keeps me trying.
2. Installing GUI library
-I choose wxCL - a Widgets library
-Thanks to Surendra Singhi I downloaded wxcl-1.1.1 - a common LISP Widgets library.
download wxcl-1.1.1 from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxcl/wxcl-1.1.1.zip?download
I unzip it in the directory I have lispworks stuff in.
I used Surendra's wxCL quick start guide to do some surgery on the file wxcl.lisp so that it would contain the relative paths so my specific computer could see the widgets library.
Then the easy part ended: the intricacies of asdf stopped my progress.
-I downloaded the widgets library and set the paths in the wxCL directory, but how do I tell the asdf to look for this new folder for the widgets.
-Surendra's guide says that I can use the asdf to load the wxcl.asd. This is very confusing. And Dr. Edmund Weitz( http://www.weitz.de/asdf-install/ ) nice tutorial on how to use asdf-install does not help.
-Is there a config file I am missing that slime loads(I do see asdf is it is starting up)?
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