[armedbear-devel] compiling lisp files outside Java and calling it after with abcl

[santi]

Hi,

I'm working with a lisp software called "Babylon". Babylon is a software
from AI that works with frames, prolog....

What I'm trying to do is to load Babylon into a JVM and then call its
functions using a Java interface, for example Java Swing or AWT. This is why
I'm trying to use ABCL to load Babylon into JVM

Thanks


-----Mensaje original-----
De: santi [mailto:scarbonell at ono.com] 
Enviado el: jueves, 01 de marzo de 2012 12:13
Para: 'Alessio Stalla'
CC: 'armedbear-devel at common-lisp.net'
Asunto: RE: [armedbear-devel] compiling lisp files outside Java and calling
it after with abcl

Hi,

Thanks to you and Mark for your answers, because I don’t know that adsf
exists. This is what I'm looking for.

I've tried to increasing the JVM memory but then I always obtain some memory
problems (stack overflow). I supposed that this problem is because this lisp
project try to load a lot of lisp files from some folders and abcl needs to
compile a lot of files. The only way to compile the project was using
Allegro CL or CLISP. With Allegro CL I use jlinker but there are little
documentation and with CLISP I use Jacol but the same problem.

No problem with the machine compiled files, because I'll run always with
abcl and Windows.

I'll try to compile all files and package with adsf and then try to load
some .fasl into java with abcl and trying to load some lisp functions into
java swing.

Thanks

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Alessio Stalla [mailto:alessiostalla at gmail.com] 
Enviado el: miércoles, 29 de febrero de 2012 12:18
Para: santi
CC: armedbear-devel at common-lisp.net
Asunto: Re: [armedbear-devel] compiling lisp files outside Java and calling
it after with abcl

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:42 AM, santi <scarbonell at ono.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Because I've a lot of problems of java memory and Truncated class files,
my
> intention is try to compile in the same platform with ABCL, but only
> compile, not to load from ABCL a file and then compile all files. If there
> are some way to compile all files with abcl and package... (I don't know
if
> exists).

First, if you have memory issues, you should try increasing the
maximum heap size of your JVM. The 64M default is increasingly
limiting for Java applications, and while Lisp apps tend to waste less
memory than Java apps with tons of frameworks, I myself raised the
heap size to 256M just to be sure.

That said, you can compile and not load the files on abcl. It depends
on what you're using to compile/load, with asdf it's a matter of using
'compile-op rather than 'load-op. But, the files you'll obtain will
only be loadable by abcl anyway, as Mark explains in his post on the
abcl blog. Still, splitting the compilation and the loading in two
different sessions might help with memory issues if you really can't
give more memory to the JVM.

Alessio