Re: [Exp-engine-devel] Trying to load on recent sbcl on Mac or Linux

[Dave C. <dav...@ge...>]

Hi Craig,


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Craig Lanning <
cla...@us...> wrote:

>
> The validation code in ./eengine is not complete.  The validation code
> in ./expresso is complete.
>

Ok, so in the meantime (while exp-engine command line support is a work in
progress), let's see if we can get the command-line of expresso working...

Well, in about 30 seconds I just got an expresso executable built from the
current expresso master, with:

 sbcl --load sbcl/compile
 sbcl --load sbcl/deliver


If I call

 ./expresso --help

It does give a list of help which looks relevant to expresso.

But I still need a bit more guidance to know how to ask it to validate a
STEP file:

./expresso --validate  -input
/Users/dcooper8/genworks/support/tud/step-output/data/one-piece.stp

An unhandled error has occurred.
Error: There is no applicable method for the generic function
         #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION EXPRESSO:READ-DATA (3)>
       when called with arguments

 (#P"/Users/dcooper8/genworks/support/tud/step-output-incomplete/data/one-piece.stp"
          NIL).


Welp, it looks like I'm not giving the arguments in quite the right
format...?



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 Dave

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