[cells-gtk-devel] cannot load "load.lisp"

[Andras Simon]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Peter Denno wrote:

> On Monday 19 June 2006 15:55, Vinay Reddy wrote:
>>> Hmmm, what's your OS? The CLISP doc says that FFI is "Platform
>>> Dependent: Many UNIX, Win32 platforms only." Anyway, if there's no
>>> FFI, don't bother with testing cffi; it won't work.
>>
>> I'm using RHEL 4.
>>
>>> I have no idea why this happens.  Did you compile your SBCL? Can you
>>> run its self-tests? (You need the SBCL sources for this.)
>>
>> Nope, I downloaded sbcl binaries for AMD 64 from sf.net.
>>
>> okay, I'll try compiling sbcl from sources.
>
> I would guess that the chances of success along this path, given that you are
> an inexperience user, would not be very good.

Right. Perhaps starting with Allegro (www.franz.com) or LispWorks
(www.lispworks.com) would be easier. I was worried that the heap size
restriction in ACL 8 Express might be a problem, but fortunately no.

Andras