[cells-gtk-devel] only works the first time

[Peter Denno]

On Sunday 28 May 2006 07:34, Lelanthran Manickum wrote:
> Hello all
>
> (I feel like an idiot for replying to my own mail,
> but anyway ...)
>
> After much experimenting, I find that gtk-ffi.lisp
> has to be *recompiled* on every run (along with all
> its dependencies.
>
> I'm now trying to save a core/image file, but it cannot
> be done (clisp complains about a foreign pointer from
> a previous session that is invalid) and I assume that
> foreign-pointers are not valid between sessions
> (I, for one, cannot imagine a way for a C pointer
> to be consistent between successive runs).
>
> I'll experiment some more to find a way (sure it exists)
> to save a corefile minus gtk-ffi and only reload
> gtk-ffi on restarts (although it takes fairly long
> to recompile - almost 20 seconds for only gtk-ffi; a
> full compile takes a couple of minutes).

Hi,

I think our email is crossing paths. It is probably not the recompilation that 
is doing anything here, but that gtk-ffi:load-gtk-libs is wrapped in a 
eval-when :compile-toplevel. I think if you should call load-gtk-libs on 
restart. 



>
> Lee
>
> On Sun, 28 May 2006 10:33:09 +0200
>
>  "Lelanthran Manickum" <lkman at webmail.co.za> wrote:
> >Hello all
> >
> >I've only ever been able to run the "load.lisp" file
> >once (both on cmucl and clisp). When I run the second
> >time, they both complain, so exactly what is it that
> >I need to run after I've already run load.lisp? All I want
> >to do now is view the demo again without having to rebuild
> >everything (it works if I delete all the compiled files).
> >
> >The other thing is that neither cmucl nor clisp will
> >rerun the core file that was saved after running
> >load.lisp. What must I do to save my
> >core-fire/memory-images
> >if I don't want to keep recompiling or if I want to
> >ship a core-file?
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >Lee
>
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- Best regards,
   Peter