[cells-gtk-devel] (test-gtk:gtk-demo) failed

[Peter Hildebrandt]

Scott,

I'm glad to hear it all worked out for you.

The GTK warnings on the console appear for me, too.  We might be able
to fix that in cells-gtk3.  They don't do any harm, though.

Peter

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Scott Brown <doolagarl2002 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Peter
>
> The demo now works, and displays the GTK  Testing window and tabs.
> Everything in the demo seems to be working okay, as far as I can tell,
> though it still prints some warning messages at the shell.
>
> So, it's all fixed. Thanks for your help.
>
>
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> Peter Hildebrandt <peter.hildebrandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Scott,
>
> > Also, during the compilation process there are some warnings like
> >
> > WARNING: COMPILE-FILE warned while performing #
> > #x19DC9229> on #.
>
> > WARNING: COMPILE-FILE failed while performing #
> > #x19DC9229> on #.
>
> >
> > and
> >
> > WARNING: EVAL: too few arguments given to FFI::FOREIGN-LIBRARY-FUNCTION:
> > (FFI::FOREIGN-LIBRARY-FUNCTION "g_free" (FFI::FOREIGN-LIBRARY
> > :DEFAULT) NIL
> > (FFI:PARSE-C-TYPE '(FFI:C-FUNCTION (:ARGUMENTS (#:G34113
> > FFI:C-POINTER)) (:RETURN-TYPE NIL) (:LANGUAGE :STDC))))
>
> This is interesting. At this point I am pretty sure your problem is not
> with cells-gtk, but rather with the underlying cffi. It looks like the
> definitions of the gtk libs don't pass compilation properly, and the fact
> that you keep getting the NIL function error both suggest that the binding
> to the library does not work at all.
>
> So let us investigate your CFFI:
>
> - Did you install cffi 0.9.2 from here?
> http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/
> (The darcs version *and* older versions don't work!)
>
> - Do you have clisp >= 2.35 as required by cffi (cf. their homepage)
>
> I don't know how clisp handles compilation of source files . SBCL creates
> compiled files with the extension .fasl, and sometimes you need to remove
> those manually, because otherwise the compiler uses outdated files.
>
> Peter
>
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