[slime-devel] It's not just me! [was: CLISP on Windows?]

[Peter Seibel]

Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> writes:

> So I was under the impression that CLISP and Slime Just Worked on
> Windows.  However I'm trying to build the CLISP lispbox and it's not
> quite working. As far as I can tell the call to comint-send-string
> in slime-start-swank-server is not doing much. If I manually call
> (swank:start-server ...) in the *inferior-lisp* buffer, passing it
> the name of the file that slime is polling, everything starts up
> fine. Is there some obvious reason why that might not be
> working. I'm using the vanilla win32 binaries of CLISP (2.33.2) and
> Emacs (21.3) supplied by their respective developers and the 1.2.1
> tar of SLIME.

Looks like Dave Roberts has run into this problem as well:

  <http://www.findinglisp.com/blog/2005/06/upgrades-grrrrr.html>

So it's not just me. The common variable may be Windows XP--does
anyone have SLIME running successfully on Windows XP? With CLISP?

-Peter

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