[Ecls-list] ASDF scan possible ?

[Dean O'Connor]

Well *sigh* still ain't there yet ...

The "latest" ASDF-INSTALL from 
http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install/#downloads requires further 
patching for ECL (well at least for win32 as far as I can see).

In port.lisp just added a definition of function 
"return-output-from-program".
(I just copied the :clisp + :win32  function, and used "ext:system" call).

If I ever get this fully working, I will send them my proposed additions 
for ECL - feel free to beat me to it ;)

Seems to get past that point. I tried specifying a directory and a 
tar.gz to load from.
Unfortunately, even after that it just seems to hang.

FYI. I came across this small article about ASDF-INSTALL for Windows:
    http://www.redmountainsw.com/wordpress/archives/asdf-install-clisp
which references a thread:
    
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/f60096a7f62f275a/ac89b58a890a2ee2

I can attest that this has been the biggest pain in the butt I have 
experienced in a long while.
Being dependent on cygwin is understandable but the rest is rather 
frustrating.

If I can get some spare time, I'll attempt to debug why ECL/DEFSYSTEM 
failing to load the cl-enumerations extension, so I could avoid this 
ASDF-INSTALL crud altogether.
Still I have this feeling that even if I get asdf-install working, its 
going to attempt to call defsystem anyway and still fail for ECL. Or am 
I wrong ?

I'd certainly like to hear from any other Windows users successfully 
using DEFSYSTEM to load systems (like cl-enumerations) in ECL, or up 
with a clean ASDF-INSTALL setup.

Cheers
deano





Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> 2007/5/4, Dean O'Connor <dean.oconnor at ite.com.au>:
>> I figure if ECL is aiming at supporting Windows, this would be a very
>> nice standard feature to include.
>> Otherwise you have to specify the path of every single extension you
>> have, instead of just the root to all of them.
>> Forgive me, if there is an option there already.
>
> Please excuse me if I do not understand this, but how does
> asdf-install on windows differ from the Unix behavior? Does this
> recursive search work on Linux/Unix/BSD machines? Or is it an
> implementation dependent feature?
>
> Juanjo
>