Problem solved. It may be related to the fact that I did not have
mysql.h installed on my system, but I am not completely sure because I
did a bunch of other things, including changing mysql-fluid from
standalone installation to git based patch on the original clsql.

Warren

On Mar 21, 1:19 am, Warren Lynn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to get the clsql based demo working, but I immediately
> bumped into an issue.
>
> I started the demo with following line:
> (weblocks-clsql-demo:start-weblocks-clsql-demo :port 8000 :debug t)
>
> And when I click on the "next" on the default greeting page (the page
> that says "Roses are red..."), I got an error (in the web browser):
>
> erred while invoking #<COMPILE-OP (:VERBOSE NIL) {1004DA3381}> on
> #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "clsql-uffi" {100502D881}>
>
> When I try to compile clsql-uffi.lisp manually, I got a bunch of
> warnings, but a single error:
>
> clsql-uffi.lisp:141:9:
>   error:
>     (in macroexpansion of (CONVERT-FROM-FOREIGN-STRING CHAR-PTR :NULL-
> TERMINATED-P ...))
>     (hint: For more precise location, try *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*.)
>     error while parsing arguments to DEFMACRO CONVERT-FROM-FOREIGN-
> STRING:
>       unknown keyword: :ENCODING; expected one of :NULL-TERMINATED-
> P, :LOCALE, :LENGTH
>
> It surprised me as my understanding is clsql has been around for quite
> a while and is very stable, but it has compilation problems? I am a
> newbie to both weblocks and lisp, can anyone enlighten me what could
> have gone wrong?
>
> I am running weblocks stable 0.8.3 with sbcl 1.0.31 on Ubuntu 8.10. I
> installed everything (except cl-fluid) using clbuild.
>
> Without clsql working, I can not use weblocks. So I hope my
> exploration does not stop here. Thanks a lot for any help/advice.
>
> Warren

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