[slime-devel] Built CLISP 2.39 with cygwin....

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Richard Levenberg writes:
> And now SLIME wont load:
> 
> I have
> 
> (add-to-list 'load-path "C:\\DVP\\slime")
> (require 'slime)
> (slime-setup :autodoc t)
> (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t)))
> 
> in my .emacs file and when I do M-x slime
> 
> it says 
> 
> (load "c:/DVP/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t)
> (swank:start-server "c:/slime.2860" :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix)
> 
> [1]> 
> *** - LOAD: A file with name /c/DVP/slime/swank-loader.lisp does not exist
> The following restarts are available:
> ABORT          :R1      ABORT
> Break 1 [2]> 
> *** - READ from #<INPUT CONCATENATED-STREAM #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM> #<IO TERMINAL-STREAM>>: there is no package with name
>        "SWANK"
> 
> I know that this is because CLISP is compiled with cygwin which
> wants pathnames like /cygdrive/c/DVP and emacs is not compiled with
> cygwin. My question is what to do about it. Im not a Lisp expert
> yet. 

You could make a symbolic link in cygwin:

          ln -s /cygdrive/c /c


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