Re: [Sbcl-help] Problem with asdf-install on win32 (sbcl-0.9.18)

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

"VAUCHER Laurent" <VA...@fe...> writes:

>   I've just downloaded the installer for sbcl-0.9.18 on Windows, run it
> and tried to play with it.

Thanks for the report!

> * (require :asdf-install)
>
>   which seems to work, except on random occasions when it tells me :
>
> ; compilation unit aborted
> ;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition
>
>   and then repeats the prompt line ('* \n') until I hit Ctrl-c. 

Does this happen when you start SBCL directly from the binary,
or from a shortcut, or both? 

This behaviour is a "known mystery" on my box at least, when starting
SBCL from a shortcut; a seeming workaround is to set the "Disable
Advanced Input Options" option in the shortcut properties.

Does this workaround work for you?

> * (asdf-install:install "C:/tmp/download/cl-ppcre.tar.gz")
>
>   asdf-install politely asks me where I want to install, to which I
> answers politely also.
>   It tells me that it is installing the package in the chosen location,
> but then hangs.
>   It seems that tar.exe (from my cygwin installation) is running but not
> doing much (0% CPU). Maybe it's waiting from some input.
>
>   Oh, I forgot to say that before the local file install, I tried the
> HTTP install (directly from Edi Weitz's site for CL-PPCRE) and it hang
> similarly, after having told me it had downloaded the file. The only
> difference was that that time it was gpg that was doing nothing. My
> command was:
>
> * (asdf-install:install "http://weitz.de/files/cl-ppcre.tar.gz")

SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM is still in need of more love for Windows, unfortunately.

>   BTW, I had to manually define the environment variable SBCL_HOME for
> sbcl to find its core file. By default, it tried /usr/local/lib/sbcl,
> which is not quite right.

This seems very odd. The installer should create SBCL_HOME. Can you
please provide details of your installation procedure?



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