[asdf-install-devel] Re: [Sbcl-help] asdf install broken on win32?

[Terrence Brannon]

On Dec 2, 2007 11:22 PM, Gary King <gwking at metabang.com> wrote:
> Hi Terrance,
>
> You may want to look at the portable version of ASDF-Install (http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install

Yeah I just grabbed asdf_latest.tgz from there

> ); there's been some recent work in making it more Windows friendly.

Well, it seems to need something called sb-bsd-sockets. And how to
install this is not mentioned in the README:

c:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My
Documents/dl/asdf-install/asdf-install # sbcl
This is SBCL 1.0.9, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.

This is experimental prerelease support for the Windows platform: use
at your own risk.  "Your Kitten of Death awaits!"
* (load "load-asdf-install.lisp")

;;; ASDF-INSTALL: Loading ASDF-INSTALL package from directory
;;;               "c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My
Documents\dl\asdf-install\asdf-install\"


debugger invoked on a SB-KERNEL:READER-PACKAGE-ERROR:
  READER-ERROR at 3750 (line 105, column 53) on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for
"file c:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My
Documents\\dl\\asdf-install\\asdf-install\\PORT.LISP" {A7389F1}>:
    package "SB-BSD-SOCKETS" not found

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-IMPL::READ-TOKEN
 #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file c:\\Documents and
Settings\\Administrator\\My
Documents\\dl\\asdf-install\\asdf-install\\PORT.LISP" {A7389F1}>
 #\s)
0]