[slime-devel] Re: slime working with sbcl 1.0.16 win32 ?

[Chisheng Huang]

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr at freebits.de> writes:

> Chisheng Huang <cph at chi-square-works.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anybody tried to run SBCL 1.0.16 Win32 with Slime?  After I did
>> M-x slime, the mini buffer printed out "spawning child process: invalid
>> argument".   I tried Slime with 1.0.16 and 1.0.16.4 of SBCL Win32 and
>> both did not work.  Any idea?
>
> AFAIK, SBCL does not support threads on Windows. You have to use a
> different communication style.

Thanks for the info.

I forgot to mention that SBCL 1.0.15.41 Win32 works with Slime
without any problem.  I also set SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* to
NIL explicitly (for both 1.0.15.41 and 1.0.16.*).

Best,

-cph