[slime-devel] Problem with Slime & SBCL on Windows XP

Helmut Eller heller at common-lisp.net
Thu Mar 24 06:51:53 UTC 2011


* Scott Turner [2011-03-23 01:11] writes:

> It appears to me that for whatever reason, the swank server is not
> opening the advertised port.  I took a look at the swank code but I
> didn't see any additional debugging I can turn on.  I've done some
> extensive Googling but can't find any solution.  Any ideas what's
> going on or how to get it working?

I haven't look at this recently, but in the past it didn't work because
SBCL's READ-CHAR-NO-HANG doesn't work as on Unix.  You probably have to
wait until SBCL's thread implementation becomes more mature on Windows.

Helmut





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