[Ecls-list] Problems building HEAD with ECL_UNICODE on windows

[Gabriel Barta]

Hi everyone,
I tried compiling the latest git head with ECL_UNICODE=1 ECL_THREADS=1
ECL_DEBUG=1.

I found that using ECL_UNICODE caused ecl_min to fail, which aborted the
build process.  I traced through this problem and ended up with the patch
which I have added at the patch tracker with ID 2796465.  I am new to ECL,
so I hope the patch is reasonable.  While this allows ecl to build and boot,
the unicode support itself still seems broken on windows, unless I am doing
something very wrong.

On a different note, I found that I got a 'not a lisp object' error on
initializing CLOS.  I took a few random stabs in the dark and found that
reverting this change fixes it:
http://ecls.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ecls/ecl/src/clos/standard.lsp?r1=1.50&r2=1.51

I have no idea why reverting this change works; I couldn't make sense of
what was happening in the debugger.

HTH,
Gabriel.
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