[Sbcl-help] run-program'ing a saved lisp executable?

[Erik W. <ae...@xs...>]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if I am overlooking something obvious during my
expriments.  I'm writing a utility that needs to run other programs and
it currently does work for all other executables that I have tried, for
example:

    (sb-ext:run-program "java" '("-jar" "example_bots/DualBot.jar") :search t)

    or

    (sb-ext:run-program (merge-pathnames "notepad.exe") nil)
    (I put Notepad in the same directory I started SBCL in.)

But when I try to run an executable that I made with SBCL it doesn't
work:

    brainrot@ASUS-G1S:/c/Projects/planet-wars/aerique$ sbcl
    This is SBCL 1.0.42, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
    More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

    SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
    It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
    BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
    distribution for more information.

    This is experimental prerelease support for the Windows platform: use
    at your own risk.  "Your Kitten of Death awaits!"
    ; loading system definition from
    ; c:\Share\Software\Lisp\asdf-binary-locations\asdf-binary-locations.asd into
    ; #<PACKAGE "ASDF0">
    ; registering #<SYSTEM ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS> as ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS
    STYLE-WARNING: redefining LISP-VERSION-STRING in DEFUN
    * (defun test () (format t "Hello.~%") (quit))

    TEST
    * (save-lisp-and-die "test-exec" :executable t :toplevel #'test)
    [undoing binding stack and other enclosing state... done]
    [saving current Lisp image into test-exec:
    writing 3288 bytes from the read-only space at 0x22000000
    writing 2384 bytes from the static space at 0x22100000
    writing 28954624 bytes from the dynamic space at 0x22300000
    done]

    brainrot@ASUS-G1S:/c/Projects/planet-wars/aerique$ ./test-exec 

    This is experimental prerelease support for the Windows platform: use
    at your own risk.  "Your Kitten of Death awaits!"
    Hello.

    brainrot@ASUS-G1S:/c/Projects/planet-wars/aerique$ sbcl
    This is SBCL 1.0.42, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
    More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

    SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
    It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
    BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
    distribution for more information.

    This is experimental prerelease support for the Windows platform: use
    at your own risk.  "Your Kitten of Death awaits!"
    ; loading system definition from
    ; c:\Share\Software\Lisp\asdf-binary-locations\asdf-binary-locations.asd into
    ; #<PACKAGE "ASDF0">
    ; registering #<SYSTEM ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS> as ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS
    STYLE-WARNING: redefining LISP-VERSION-STRING in DEFUN
    * (sb-ext:run-program (merge-pathnames "test-exec") nil)

    debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" RUNNING
                                                   {23DC4861}>:
      couldn't fork child process: No such file or directory

    Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

    restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
      0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

    (RUN-PROGRAM #P"c:\\Projects\\planet-wars\\aerique\\test-exec" NIL)[:EXTERNAL]
    0] 0

While it says "No such file or directory" that doesn't seem to be the
problem, since it does work for Notepad.

Could the SBCLs be interfering?

note: This is all on Windows Vista using the experimental SBCL 1.0.42
with threads.