From praki.prakash at gmail.com  Sun May 25 15:52:24 2008
From: praki.prakash at gmail.com (Praki Prakash)
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 08:52:24 -0700
Subject: [asdf-install-devel] asdf-install on Windows XP and SBCL 1.0.13
Message-ID: <dca1034a0805250852o6ed91798u874e2621319ee84@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Folks,

For reasons beyond my control, I have to get SBCL and ASDF working on
a Windows XP box. I have been finding it extremely challenging. I have
followed a number of different folk's workarounds and still not able
to get this to work.

To cut a long story short, if there is someone who has gotten this to
work in this environment, I would very much appreciate hearing what
they did.

Thanks,
Praki


From gwking at metabang.com  Sun May 25 19:53:49 2008
From: gwking at metabang.com (Gary King)
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:53:49 -0400
Subject: [asdf-install-devel] asdf-install on Windows XP and SBCL 1.0.13
In-Reply-To: <dca1034a0805250852o6ed91798u874e2621319ee84@mail.gmail.com>
References: <dca1034a0805250852o6ed91798u874e2621319ee84@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <79D6752C-1C39-4128-94E7-C7565EB3D69F@metabang.com>

Hi Praki,

Are you using cygwin? Are you using the latest asdf-install from  
common-lisp.net?

Happily, I have some time tomorrow that I can use to muck about with  
this (though it'll be on Windows 2003).

I hope I can help.

On May 25, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Praki Prakash wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> For reasons beyond my control, I have to get SBCL and ASDF working on
> a Windows XP box. I have been finding it extremely challenging. I have
> followed a number of different folk's workarounds and still not able
> to get this to work.
>
> To cut a long story short, if there is someone who has gotten this to
> work in this environment, I would very much appreciate hearing what
> they did.
>
> Thanks,
> Praki
> _______________________________________________
> asdf-install-devel mailing list
> asdf-install-devel at common-lisp.net
> http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-install-devel

--
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Cell: (413) 559 8738
Fax: (206) 338-4052
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From praki.prakash at gmail.com  Sun May 25 20:38:40 2008
From: praki.prakash at gmail.com (Praki Prakash)
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 13:38:40 -0700
Subject: [asdf-install-devel] asdf-install on Windows XP and SBCL 1.0.13
In-Reply-To: <79D6752C-1C39-4128-94E7-C7565EB3D69F@metabang.com>
References: <dca1034a0805250852o6ed91798u874e2621319ee84@mail.gmail.com>
	<79D6752C-1C39-4128-94E7-C7565EB3D69F@metabang.com>
Message-ID: <dca1034a0805251338v61d50d3fp7ab0ccaccb60c0d4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Gary,

Thanks for your quick reply and I really appreciate your help.

I am using cygwin and I am using the latest asdf-install. Here is my
asdf-install directory contents extracted from
http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install/asdf-install_latest.tar.gz
I don't know if the nested asdf-install is expected.

C:\sbcl\1.0.13\asdf-install>dir
 Volume in drive C is PPRAKASH-WIN1
 Volume Serial Number is 88FB-1B53

 Directory of C:\sbcl\1.0.13\asdf-install

05/25/2008  01:30 PM    <DIR>          asdf-install
12/26/2007  07:20 PM             1,510 rebuild
12/26/2007  07:20 PM               561 test-asdf-install.asd
05/25/2008  01:30 PM    <DIR>          tests
05/25/2008  01:30 PM    <DIR>          website

This what happens when I (require 'asdf-install).

C:\sbcl\1.0.13\asdf-install>sbcl --dynamic-space-size 100
This is SBCL 1.0.13, 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!"
* (require 'asdf)

("ASDF")
* (require 'asdf-install)

debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR:
  error opening #P"C:\\sbcl\\1.0.13\\asdf-install\\asdf-install":
    Permission denied

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::SIMPLE-FILE-PERROR
 "error opening ~S"
 #P"C:\\sbcl\\1.0.13\\asdf-install\\asdf-install"
 13)
0] back

0: (SB-IMPL::SIMPLE-FILE-PERROR
    "error opening ~S"
    #P"C:\\sbcl\\1.0.13\\asdf-install\\asdf-install"
    13)
1: (SB-IMPL::SIMPLE-FILE-PERROR
    "error opening ~S"
    #P"C:\\sbcl\\1.0.13\\asdf-install\\asdf-install"
    13)
2: ((LABELS SB-IMPL::VANILLA-OPEN-ERROR))
3: (OPEN #P"C:\\sbcl\\1.0.13\\asdf-install\\asdf-install")
4: (SB-FASL::%LOAD #P"C:\\sbcl\\1.0.13\\asdf-install\\asdf-install")
5: (LOAD #P"C:\\sbcl\\1.0.13\\asdf-install\\asdf-install")
6: (SB-IMPL::MODULE-PROVIDE-CONTRIB ASDF-INSTALL)
7: ((LAMBDA (#:G[REQUIRE]18)) SB-IMPL::MODULE-PROVIDE-CONTRIB)
8: (SB-IMPL::%MAP-FOR-EFFECT-ARITY-1
    #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA #) {AC06E65}>
    (ASDF::MODULE-PROVIDE-ASDF SB-IMPL::MODULE-PROVIDE-CONTRIB))
9: (REQUIRE ASDF-INSTALL NIL)
10: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (REQUIRE 'ASDF-INSTALL) #<NULL-LEXENV>)
11: (INTERACTIVE-EVAL (REQUIRE 'ASDF-INSTALL))
12: (SB-IMPL::REPL-FUN NIL)
13: (SB-IMPL::REPL-FUN NIL)
14: ((LAMBDA ()))
15: ((LAMBDA ()))
16: (SB-IMPL::%WITH-REBOUND-IO-SYNTAX #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA #) {A67AA9D}>)
17: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-REPL NIL)
18: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-INIT)
19: ((LABELS SB-IMPL::RESTART-LISP))
20: ("foreign function: #x4113F5")
21: ("foreign function: #x40A162")


On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Gary King <gwking at metabang.com> wrote:
> Hi Praki,
>
> Are you using cygwin? Are you using the latest asdf-install from
> common-lisp.net?
>
> Happily, I have some time tomorrow that I can use to muck about with this
> (though it'll be on Windows 2003).
>
> I hope I can help.
>
> On May 25, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Praki Prakash wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> For reasons beyond my control, I have to get SBCL and ASDF working on
>> a Windows XP box. I have been finding it extremely challenging. I have
>> followed a number of different folk's workarounds and still not able
>> to get this to work.
>>
>> To cut a long story short, if there is someone who has gotten this to
>> work in this environment, I would very much appreciate hearing what
>> they did.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Praki
>> _______________________________________________
>> asdf-install-devel mailing list
>> asdf-install-devel at common-lisp.net
>> http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-install-devel
>
> --
> Gary Warren King, metabang.com
> Cell: (413) 559 8738
> Fax: (206) 338-4052
> gwkkwg on Skype * garethsan on AIM
>
>
>
>
>


From gwking at metabang.com  Thu May 29 14:14:10 2008
From: gwking at metabang.com (Gary King)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:14:10 -0400
Subject: [asdf-install-devel] asdf-install on Windows XP and SBCL 1.0.13
In-Reply-To: <dca1034a0805251338v61d50d3fp7ab0ccaccb60c0d4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <dca1034a0805250852o6ed91798u874e2621319ee84@mail.gmail.com>
	<79D6752C-1C39-4128-94E7-C7565EB3D69F@metabang.com>
	<dca1034a0805251338v61d50d3fp7ab0ccaccb60c0d4@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <EBA872B1-E59F-4869-90D0-73DFBF22C6D9@metabang.com>

Hi again Praki,

> Thanks for your quick reply and I really appreciate your help.

(This time my reply was too slow... sorry!)

Your initial concern about the nested asdf-install directories was  
well-founded; if I (try to) duplicate your setup, I get this error:

> 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.
> * (require 'asdf-install)
>
> debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-STREAM-ERROR:
>   couldn't read from #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /usr/local/lib/ 
> sbcl/asdf-install/asdf-install/" {11671DB1}>:
>     Is a directory
>

I.e., sbcl assumes that it can treat thing named "asdf-install" in the  
asdf-install as a file of some sort. You can work around the problem  
by doing one of the following:

  1. copy all the files in /usr/local/lib/sbcl/asdf-install/asdf- 
install up one level (ugh)
  2. load the asdf-install.asd file before requiring asdf-instal. I.e.,

> * (require 'asdf)
> ("ASDF")
> * (load "/usr/local/lib/sbcl/asdf-install/asdf-install/asdf- 
> install.asd")
> T
> * (require 'asdf-install)
> ... 		;; much happiness

  3. waiting for a better fix from me

(of the three, #1 is the easiest and #3 is likely to take the longest).

Please let me know if this makes sense and if it works for you or not.

thanks,
--
Gary Warren King, metabang.com
Cell: (413) 559 8738
Fax: (206) 338-4052
gwkkwg on Skype * garethsan on AIM