[cells-gtk-devel] problem with setting up cells-gtk (on debian)

[Peter Hildebrandt]

Hi Daniel,

I remember similar issues when installing cells-gtk on my lab machine.   
After reading in the gtk+ docs for a while I realized that the reason was  
simply that my gtk was too old and thus did not provide all funcs which  
test-gtk needs.

Hence, which version of gtk comes with your debian?  Compare this to the  
current version on http://www.gtk.org/ - 2.10.13.

You do not have to upgrade your distro if this is the reason -- I just  
downloaded gtk+ and its dependencies from their website and built it from  
source in my $home.  After adding the respective paths, (lib and include)  
to the corresponding variables, it worked fine.

HTH,
Peter


On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:20:44 -0700, Daniel Albuschat  
<d.albuschat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I tried to install cells-gtk on debian, and strictly followed the  
> instructions.
> Here are the exact steps:
> I downloaded cells-gtk-2006-06-30.tgz to
> /pub/packages/tar/cells-gtk-2006-06-30.tgz
> and unpacked it, so the extracted directory is
> /pub/packages/tar/cells-gtk-2006-06-30
>
> I cd'd to that dir, started emacs, executed slime, and executed
> (load "load"). I then noticed that I need to specify the correct path in
> load.lisp, as stated in INSTALL.TXT. I did that, did a second (load  
> "load")
> and it went on to install cells-gtk. Half way thru it told me about not
> finding some libgobject*.so. I then apt-get installed the necessary
> libraries for gtk (mostly libgtk2.0-dev), changed into the root/gtk-ffi  
> dir
> and did a 'make'. After copying the resulting libcellsgtk.so to ~/lib  
> (which is
> in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH) I changed back into the install-rootdir, opened
> up emacs and slime, and ran (load "load") again.
> It compiled smoothly, and stated me to test itself with  
> (test-gtk:gtk-demo)
>
> Running (test-gtk:gtk-demo) yields this result:
>
> FUNCALL: undefined function NIL
>    [Condition of type SYSTEM::SIMPLE-UNDEFINED-FUNCTION]
>
> Restarts:
>   0: [USE-VALUE] You may input a value to be used instead of  
> (FDEFINITION 'NIL).
>   1: [RETRY] Retry
>   2: [STORE-VALUE] You may input a new value for (FDEFINITION 'NIL).
>   3: [ABORT-REQUEST] Abort handling SLIME request.
>   4: [CLOSE-CONNECTION] Close SLIME connection
>   5: [ABORT] ABORT
>
> Backtrace:
>   0: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SYSTEM::CHECK-VALUE>
>   1: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION GTK-FFI::G_THREAD_INIT>
>   2: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION GTK-FFI:G-THREAD-INIT>
>   3: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION CELLS-GTK:START-APP>
>   4: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION TEST-GTK:GTK-DEMO>
>   5: #<SYSTEM-FUNCTION EVAL>
>   6: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK::EVAL-REGION>
>   7: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK::LISTENER-EVAL-1>
>   8: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION #:|324 326 (DEFINTERFACE
> CALL-WITH-SYNTAX-HOOKS (FN) ...)-34-3-1|>
>   9: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-SYNTAX-HOOKS>
>  10: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK::CALL-WITH-BUFFER-SYNTAX>
>  11: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK:LISTENER-EVAL>
>  12: #<SYSTEM-FUNCTION EVAL>
>  13: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK::EVAL-FOR-EMACS-1-4>
>  14: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK::EVAL-FOR-EMACS-1>
>  15: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION #:|567 572 (DEFINTERFACE
> CALL-WITH-DEBUGGER-HOOK (HOOK FUN) ...)-58-3-1|>
>  16: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-DEBUGGER-HOOK>
>  17: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK::EVAL-FOR-EMACS>
>  18: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK::READ-FROM-EMACS>
>  19: #<COMPILED-FUNCTION SWANK::HANDLE-REQUEST-1>
>  --more--
>
> This looks like some shared-object could not be loaded, imho.
> I don't understand what is going wrong exactly -- can you help me debug
> this issue further?
>
> Kind regards,
>
>    Daniel Albuschat
>