[elephant-devel] Elephant on Windows/SBCL?

[Robert L. Read]

I think it largely that no one tests on that platform.

However, I personally don't know what the state of readiness of any lisp
on Windows is.  Elephant itself is moderate in its use of outside
systems, such as CL-SQL and BDB.

Someone who already had some experience porting to a Windows platform
could answer this better --- or maybe we even have a user who has done
it.

If all of the pieces are in place, I would guess it would be about a
three-day task, but it could be more, and someone with experience might
do it faster.

I would be happy to answer your questions about Elephant as it is, but I
don't plan to start running windows.


On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 16:36 -0700, Elliott Slaughter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I would like to port a project of mine which currently uses
> Allegro/ACache to Elephant. Installing and loading Elephant 0.9.1 on
> Windows using Allegro 8.1, the precompiled dlls, and the default
> config.sexpr worked fine, but an identical configuration in SBCL
> 1.0.13 failed with the following error:
> 
> 
> ; compiling file "C:\\Program Files\\asdf\\elephant\\src\\utils\
> \os.lisp" (written 12 SEP 2008 03:09:13 PM):
> ; compiling (IN-PACKAGE :ELEPHANT-UTILS); compilation aborted because
> of fatal error:
> ;   READ failure in COMPILE-FILE:
> ;     SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR at 885 (line 27, column 27)
> on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file C:\\Program Files\\asdf\\elephant\\src
> \\utils\\os.lisp" {AB2CC49}>:
> ;       package "SB-POSIX" not found
> 
> 
> debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR:
>   couldn't remove "C:\\Program Files\\asdf\\elephant\\src\\utils\
> \os.fasl":
>     Permission denied
> 
> 
> Which is caused by using sb-posix:chdir in in-directory because
> sb-posix doesn't exist in win32 builds of SBCL. I can't seem to find
> any quick fixes,
> but http://brainrack.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/running-sbcl-on-windows/ might help.
> 
> 
> How much work would it be to get Elephant to work on Windows/SBCL? Do
> you need threads or anything else that just isn't available for
> Windows on SBCL? Or is it just that no one happens to test that
> combination of platforms?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Elliott Slaughter
> 
> "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere." -
> Frank Herbert
> 
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