built RDNZL.dll for 64-bit, current state of RDNZL repository and mailing lists

[Edi Weitz]

BTW, you might consider posting to the mailing list (for posterity)
the changes you had to apply to the C++ sources in order to get them
to compile with VS2015.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I think it is fair to say that RDNZL is currently unmaintained.  There
> used to be an SVN repository on c-l.net which I think still exists but
> I don't have the link right now.  I also don't know how RDNZL will
> play with current versions of .NET as there seemingly have been many
> changes on that front since I created RDNZL.
>
> If someone wants to take over maintenance, that's fine with me.  They
> might consider moving the code over here: https://github.com/edicl
>
> I've updated the links to the mailing lists for now.
>
> Cheers,
> Edi.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Dave Cooper <david.cooper at genworks.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to RDNZL and .NET, but was recently requested by a customer to see
>> about getting RDNZL up and running for 64-bit Allegro.
>>
>> So I went ahead and built the 0.7.1 version of the .cpp code for 32-bit and
>> 64-bit, using VS 2015 Community Edition.
>>
>> Here are links to the resulting dll's (I'll try to leave these here at least
>> until the updated dll's can be verified and included with the official
>> distribution):
>>
>> 32-bit:
>>
>>  https://www.dropbox.com/s/je22blv3nffp9t8/RDNZL.dll?dl=0
>>
>> 64-bit:
>>
>>   https://www.dropbox.com/s/kp8xowrpefmbt8g/RDNZL.dll?dl=0
>>
>> I'm also not familiar enough with .NET and RDNZL to do any testing of the
>> above, beyond confirming that they indeed load without errors into 32-bit
>> and 64-bit Allegro CL, respectively. So if there are any active RDNZL users
>> on this list who can test with 64-bit Allegro (or other supported CL's) then
>> I'll be interested in your feedback!
>>
>> It looks like RDNZL has been "stable" (aka not very active) for some time
>> now. What is the current status? Where is the canonical repository
>> currently? Would it be possible to get it moved to gitlab.common-lisp.net
>> (gitlab.common-lisp.net is being managed and funded by the Common Lisp
>> Foundation these days, and I'm gently promoting gitlab.common-lisp.net for
>> any open-source CL libraries which are willing & able to move there, so that
>> the CL community can be somewhat in control of our own destiny).
>>
>> I also had to do a bit of poking around to find the sign-up page for this
>> mailing list --- the mailing list links at http://weitz.de/rdnzl have an
>> outdated syntax. They currently point to
>>
>>    common-lisp.net/mailmain/listinfo/rdnzl-devel  and
>>    common-lisp.net/mailmain/listinfo/rdnzl-announce
>>
>> and the correct format is:
>>
>>     mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/rdnzl-devel and
>>     mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/rdnzl-announce
>>
>> --
>> My Best,
>>
>> Dave Cooper
>> genworks.com, gendl.org
>> +1 248-330-2979
>>