[mcclim-devel] MORE ALIENS (or Freetype on SBCL)

[Brian Mastenbrook]

A little bit ago I tried looking into Freetype on SBCL. I got to the 
point where after some random amount of fooling around with recompiling 
forms from SLIME, it works - but not by default; it appears to either 
have some invisible problems with alien struct circularity, or I'm just 
being boneheaded about something. The latest tarball of my progress is 
here:

http://www.unmutual.info/software/freetype.tar.gz

To use this, remove Experimental/freetype from your McCLIM tree and 
replace it with the result of untarring this. The mcclim-freetype.asd 
system should load everything, but compilation of freetype-fonts.lisp 
will fail due to alien type problems.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out why SBCL 
doesn't understand that the alien type face is more than just (struct 
face-rec-); it must have slots as well. Good luck!
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Brian Mastenbrook
bmastenb at cs.indiana.edu
http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/