On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 08:55 -0600, LeAnthony Mathews wrote: > > 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)? > >
When I read this part of your email, I thought, "Hey, I should try and see how tough asdf is to use in Windows!" I never really do any CL stuff in Windows, so I figured it would be a neat adventure. >From my (now) three hours of arguing, lispbox is not treating me well -- use it for play, use it to introduce yourself to the language, but, apparently, don't try to use asdf to install anything cool. (1) asdf packages should (apparently) be unzipped (ok, untarred on a Linux box, then zipped on said Linux box, first) in %LISPBOX_HOME %/practicals_1.0.3/libraries. And anything that's not pure Lisp (i.e., doesn't require C libraries) will barf. (oh, and if you think setting the central-registry will work, it didn't for me, no matter how I spelled my pathnames) (2) Don't bother trying to set up asdf-install -- it only works with the cygwin version of clisp (though, it seems as if win32-native asdf-install is *possible*, but the patches have not been rolled into the source yet). (3) Install cygwin clisp (this means installing cygwin, which means you'll bloat your box by about half a gig). From there, you can install asdf, asdf-install, and then ltk worked for me, first time. Haven't tried wxcl -- but I've spent enough hours on this, if I do try, it might fail, and if it does fail, I will cry, and I don't want to risk that in front of my wife who just finished a tasty supper. A video that said, "Install cygwin (INCLUDING CLISP!), then watch this video" would be about a minute long to cover this ground... To turn the hello-world app into a distributable package would make it much more interesting, but I know very little about what needs to be done to harvest the core of Cygwin and distribute an app. On the other hand, I love videos -- I learned more about using slime from watching the video that was circulated around the tiny Common Lisp corner of the blogosphere awhile back than I ever would have by reading a bunch of text. -Josh Stone- _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
