[ltk-user] LTK and ECLS

[Neil Baylis]

2008/8/15 Thomas F. Burdick <tburdick at gmail.com>

> I'm sending a copy of this to the ECL list, since I can't see what's
> going wrong from here, nor can I get ecl to build on my system. The
> background is that Marko is trying to use Ltk with ECL under windows,
> but it looks like something fails very early on. The wish subprocess
> starts up, but when sending its initialization commands to Tcl, he
> gets this less-than-explicit error.
>
> 2008/8/14 Marko Kocić <marko.kocic at gmail.com>:
> > Ok, I tried it again with :debug 0 as you suggested and the result is the
> same:
> >
> >> (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-source-op :ltk)
>
> ECL guys: are the backtraces more usable when loaded from source or
> from compiled files?
>
> > ; loading system definition from /lisp/lib/ltk-0.91/ltk.asd into
> > ; #<ASDF0 package>
> > ;;; Loading "/lisp/lib/ltk-0.91/ltk.asd"
> > ; registering #<SYSTEM LTK 15100376> as LTK
> > ;;; Loading "c:/lisp/lib/ltk-0.91/ltk.lisp"
> > NIL
> >> (setf ltk:*wish-pathname* "c:/Tcl/bin/wish85.exe")
> > "c:/Tcl/bin/wish85.exe"
> >> ;(setf ltk:*debug-tk* t)
> > (ltk:ltktest)
> >
> > #<two-way stream 00f0db68> An error of type SIMPLE-ERROR has occured:
> > Read or write operation to stream #<output stream
> > "\"c:/Tcl/bin/wish85.exe\" \"-name\" \"LTK\""> signaled an error.
> > Explanation: Invalid argument.
> > Read or write operation to stream #<output stream
> > "\"c:/Tcl/bin/wish85.exe\" \"-name\" \"LTK\""> signaled an error.
> > Explanation: Invalid argument.
> > Broken at SI:BYTECODES.No restarts available.
> > Broken at LTK:SEND-WISH. File: #P"c:/lisp/lib/ltk-0.91/ltk.lisp" (Form
> #22)
> >>> :B
> > Backtrace: LTK:SEND-WISH > ltk::init-wish > lambda > lambda >
> > ltk::use-debugger > ltk::use-trivial-debugger > lambda > l
> > tk:start-wish > ltk:start-wish > ltk:call-with-ltk > ltk:ltktest >
> > si:bytecodes > si:bytecodes > si:bytecodes
>
> That's not the most helpful backtrace I've ever seen, but it looks
> like something in send-wish is causing this "Invalid argument" error?
>
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Can you try manually sending that command to wish to see what happens? It
should put up a small blank window with the title LTK.
c:/Tcl/bin/wish85.exe -name LTK

Neil
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