[mcclim-devel] sb-bsd-sockets

[Boris Tschirschwitz]

Hi.

Thanks for all the help.

It turns out that Brian's suggestion to modify mcclim.asd takes care of 
getting rid of clx.

Boris.

PS: Of course, climacs still depends on clx

Brian Mastenbrook wrote:

>
> On Mar 30, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Boris Tschirschwitz wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I am trying to use McCLIM with openmcl.
>> When compiling the beagle backend I get the error message that 
>> sb-bsd-sockets can't be found, apparently clx depends on it and 
>> mcclim depends on clx, even with beagle.
>> Making sb-bsd-sockets from sbcl-contrib known to asdf helps until 
>> sb-bsd-sockets wants sb-grovel and eventually sb-ext. This one I 
>> can't find on sbcl.
>>
>> Am I really supposed to use all these SBCL packages?
>> If so, where do I get the sb-ext?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Boris.
>>
>
> Hi Boris,
>
> You should edit the file mcclim.asd in the root of the McCLIM source 
> tree to use the beagle backend instead of the CLX backend. By default 
> only the CLX backend is enabled because the beagle backend is still a 
> bit buggy. Search for clim-looks in the file and comment out the line 
> that sets up the clx backend as a dependancy, and uncomment the one 
> which sets up the beagle backend.
> -- 
> Brian Mastenbrook
> brian at mastenbrook.net
> http://www.iscblog.info/
>
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