Re: [clisp-list] libffcall

[Henry V. <hen...@gm...>]

Hi Reini,

Thank you very much for your help.

I posted the same question to the libffcal forum and Sam Steingold made me
aware of the fact that CLISP is already included in the distribution of
Cygwin!!! (if you install the right packages....)
So I am using CLISP under Cygwin already.

But since I already started the generation of CLISP under Cygwin and spent
so much time with it already, I will try to complete it using ffcall and
play with it some more the coming days, just as a nice exercise to learn
something more on the subject of compiling and generation of software.

Thank you for the pointers!

Regards,

Henry.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: rei...@gm... [mailto:rei...@gm...] On 
> Behalf Of Reini Urban
> Sent: vrijdag 7 maart 2008 18:19
> To: Henry Vredegoor; CLISP Common Lisp Discussion
> Subject: Re: [clisp-list] libffcall
> 
> 
> 2008/3/4, Henry Vredegoor <hen...@gm...>:
> >  This is my first post to the list.
> >  Being very new to software engineering (please bare with 
> me....), I'm trying
> >  to build CLISP (clisp-2.44.1) from source under cygwin 
> 1.5.25(0.156/4/2).
> >
> >  Of course it failed to build a number of times (No 
> problem, I want learn
> >  something too from this..  :-)  ), I could resolve the 
> relatively simple
> >  issues until now, but now I seem to be stuck.
> >
> >  I get a number of  "undefined reference to" errors in "foreign.o",
> >  "free-foreign-callin" which I think seem to be related to 
> the "libffcall"
> >  package.
> >  Since this package seems to be currently not available on 
> the net,  I tried
> >  to build without the libffcall package, probably with the 
> above errors as a
> >  result.
> 
> The package is called ffcall and is a build time dependency 
> for cygwin.
> I even listed it at the runtime requirements for convenience, though
> it is wrong.
> Runtime requirements for base:
>   crypt
>   cygwin
>   libiconv2
>   libintl8
>   libncurses8
>   libpcre0
>   libreadline6
>   ffcall
> You have to read the cygwin README at 
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/clisp-2.44.README
> 
> >  Questions:
> >  - Is the "libffcall" package absolutely required to build 
> clisp? (I think it
> >  is)
> 
> no.
> 
> >  - Where can I find this package?
> 
> Via the cygwin setup or at
> ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/ffcall-1.10.tar.gz
> 
> >   I found a probable CVS source on the net, but I am 
> reluctant to use this,
> >  not sure if this is stable enough (and CVS is new territory for me)
> -- 
> Reini Urban
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