[mkcl-devel] Native compilation on Windows

[Jean-Claude Beaudoin]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Ralph Möritz <ralph.moeritz at outlook.com>wrote:

> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Ralph Möritz
> > <ralph.moeritz at outlook.com<mailto:ralph.moeritz at outlook.com>> wrote:
> > I just downloaded MKCL-1.1.0 & tried compiling a small "Hello, world"
> > program on Windows without success. Here's what I tried:
> >
> > 1. Add "C:\Program Files\MKCL 1.1\bin" to my PATH.
> > 2. Run `mkcl -not-fasl-p -compile hello.lisp` which produces lisp.o
> > 3. Now what? I've tried to link using `gcc -o hello.exe hello.o
> > -lmkcl_1.1.0` which produces an error:
> >
> > Such a direct call to gcc cannot work with a ".o" produced by the MKCL
> > compiler (see [1] below as to why).
>
> Ah! Thanks for elaborating.
>

Yes I know, this should be clearly explained in the documentation...


>
> ...
> In my spare time I'm writing a chess engine. Chess engines are usually
> provided
> to users as statically linked native executables. Of course I'm using
> SLIME
> interactively during development, but I'd like to be able to build the
> executable from the
> command-line as well. Normally I use SBCL, but I'm experimenting with ECL
> & MKCL specifically
> to be able to produce native executables from my Lisp code.
>
>
Well, in that case all I can add is: Thank you very much for the bug report
and I am working on a fix right now.
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