[Ecls-list] ECL on iPhone

[Red Daly]

ECL has finally made it to the iPhone!  It took a port of the garbage
collector and a lot of time messing around with configuration settings, but
I have finally built a bare bones version of ECL that runs on the
iPhone/iPod Touch.

However, I still don't have all the bells and whisltes working correctly.
My current problem is getting ASDF to properly compile into ECL.  I cannot
get ECL to build, even for the i386 Darwin non-cross-compiled version of
ECL, when I have ASDF enabled and the --disable-shared flag set in the
configuration script.  I get the following error a ways into the lisp
portion of compilation:
;;;   ar cr libsockets.a
/private/var/folders/bZ/bZzxCBiyF0ec7xuYjNmSMk+++TI/-Tmp-/ECLINIT5W4NFx.o
/Users/red/Projects/ecl/ecl-git/build/ext/package.o
/Users/red/Projects/ecl/ecl-git/build/ext/sockets.o
;;; Note: Invoking external command:
The function ASDF:FIND-SYSTEM is undefined.
;;;   ranlib libsockets.aBroken at TOP-LEVEL. File:
#P"/Users/red/Projects/ecl/ecl-git/src/lsp/top.lsp" (Form #26)No restarts
available.
Top level.
SI>

I cannot make much of this error.  I noticed an earlier thread on this list
mentioned the same kind of error, but I did not understand the solution (it
involved setting LDFLAGS to -rpath=..., but rpath isnt' even an option in
the apple version of gcc.

Any idea what's going on here?  The error message doesn't really tell me
much about what's going wrong.  I am even more confused about why the
--disable-shared flag makes any difference.

So far I am successfully compiling --with-sockets... more features coming
soon.  I really want to get ASDF working so I can hook SLIME up to a remote
swank on the iPhone.

Best,
Red

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <
juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Red Daly <reddaly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I posted this message in september and thought I would see if anyone has
> any
> > insights this time around.  This is where I gave up last time I tried to
> get
> > ECL to compile for iPhone/armv6.  Has anyone had similar problems with
> other
> > platforms?  Does somebody with intimate knowledge of the build process
> know
> > how the indices could go wrong?
>
> Sorry, this went unnoticed through my mailbox. I have a pretty good
> idea of what happens here: cross-compilation implies building ECL with
> a different version, and it may be the case that the host version has
> a different set of symbols. This may happen if the host and the cross
> compiled version are configured with different flags.
>
> Juanjo
>
> --
> Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC
> c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28009 (Spain)
> http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com
>
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