[Ecls-list] I need a little more help

[Paul Bowyer]

On 11/23/2011 11:56 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> Hi Paul, have you tried adding :clx to the dependencies list of your 
> ASDF file? If that is not present, there is no way ECL knows that CLX 
> must be part of your system. An alternative is to insert an explicit 
> (require :clx) at the beginning of your program, but then you will 
> have to ship clx.fas with your program.
>
> Juanjo
>
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Juanjo:

After adding ":depends-on (:clx)" to my ".asd" file, "clx-gui-mono" no 
longer errors out. I tried ":depends-on (:xlib)" which is also in 
"*features*" but it didn't like that.

  However, I still haven't discovered how to invoke "(clx-gui:start)" 
when I run "clx-gui-mono". All "clx-gui-mono" does when I run it is 
terminate without doing anything.

I know that the application runs without problems because from the ECL 
prompt, I can do:
     (load "clx-gui")
     (clx-gui:start)
which runs the application.

So again I ask:
What is the proper way to access a particular function of a stand-alone 
executable at start up? Is it done somehow in the ".asd" file or by 
passing arguments to the executable? I again tried various renditions of 
(eval-when... but without success. I haven't yet discovered the correct 
combination and I've run out of things I can think of to try.

Thanks,

Paul