Re: [Matlisp-users] Trouble running matlisp on Ubuntu with Allegro

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Timmons <eti...@MI...> writes:

    Eric> Hi all,
    Eric> I've managed to get matlisp working on windows, but I also need to get 

That's fantastic!  I've never personally done that and wasn't really
expecting the current version to build on windows.  Did you need to do
anything special?  If so, can you provide some hints on how to do
that?  Or better yet, if you have a sourceforge account, edit the trac
page for matlisp at http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/matlisp.

    Eric> it working on a linux distro as well. Specifically I'm working on Ubuntu 
    Eric> 10.04 with allegro CL 8.1 (64-bit if that matters).

IIRC, the free Allegro limits are too low to build matlisp.  Are you
using the full version?

    Eric> I got the latest version of matlisp from git and followed the 
    Eric> instructions in the INSTALL file. I noticed some bugs while compiling, 
    Eric> though. The makefile attempted to install LAPACK before BLAS and it 
    Eric> (understandably) got unhappy about that. I fixed that, then I noticed 

I'll look into that and fix it soon.

    Eric> that the file libmatlisp.so wasn't actually generated so I had to change 
    Eric> lazy-loader.lisp to load libblas.so, liblapack.so, libdfftpack.so, and 
    Eric> libtoms715.so.

Yes, that's correct.  I don't have a way to test with acl, so that
part no longer works with acl.  The new structure doesn't generate
libmatlisp.so anymore; you loaded the correct files.

Patches would be most appreciated for this.

    Eric> After making those changes, I loaded start.lisp from Allegro. There were 
    Eric> some compile warnings, but nothing looked too major. I was then able to 
    Eric> make matrices using MAKE-REAL-MATRIX, but whenever any code tried to use 
    Eric> a Fortran function an error was signaled. The following error was given 
    Eric> when I tried to evaluate (eye 2):

Ah, this might be an issue the FFI.  That may have been messed up.  I
think acl has a fortran option for the ffi which we may (or may not)
be using correctly.  

This will require some investigation.

Ray