Re: [Maxima-discuss] maxima via quicklisp

[Alexander P. <po...@gm...>]

Ok, KLUDGED via specifying (ql:quickload 'swank) in ~/.sbclrc, and then 
recompiling Maxima with these new settings.
Now (swank:create-server :port xxx) works like charm.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Maxima-discuss] maxima via quicklisp
Date: 	Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:21:22 +0000
From: 	Alexander Popolitov <po...@gm...>
To: 	max...@li...



Ok, I tried starting SWANK, that's the output I got:

(%i8) load("startswank");
To load "swank":
   Load 1 ASDF system:
     swank
; Loading "swank"
.;;
;; Error while compiling
/home/popolit/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/slime-20131211-cvs/swank-sbcl.lisp:
;;   Don't know how to REQUIRE SB-INTROSPECT.
;; See also:
;;   The SBCL Manual, Variable SB-EXT:*MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
;;   The SBCL Manual, Function REQUIRE
;; Aborting.
;; ;
    ; compilation unit aborted
    ;   caught 4 fatal ERROR conditions

loadfile: failed to load /home/popolit/.maxima/startswank.lisp
  -- an error.  Entering the Maxima debugger.
Enter ':h' for help.

~/.maxima/startswank.lisp contains:

(ql:quickload '#:swank)
(swank:create-server :port 56789)

It ERRORed immediately, when there was REQUIRE instead of QL:QUICKLOAD,
and then I decided to substitute and see, what happens.
However, it seems, that REQUIRE is just somehow disabled in Maxima...

On 03/15/2014 05:52 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Popolitov <po...@gm...> writes:
>      Alexander> Hello everyone,
>      Alexander> I'm very new to maxima, but have some experience with common lisp.
>      Alexander> So, I wonder, is it possible (and how hard it would be, approximately)
>      Alexander> to make maxima
>      Alexander> loadable directly via quicklisp, rather than downloading and compiling
>      Alexander> standalone executable?
>
> I believe there are several things preventing maxima from being in
> quicklisp:
>
> 1. Maxima uses autoconf/automake to set up everything and uses make to
>     build everything..  This might be solvable.
> 2. Maxima uses mk-defsys to compile and load lisp files.  There is an
>     asdf file, but that's not currently used, but I believe it works.
> 3. Documentation (online help) requires makeinfo and perl.
>
> For 2, the main issue is that gcl doesn't quite work with asdf and gcl
> still needs to be suppported for windows.
>
> For 3, if you don't need the docs, then it's not a problem.  There is
> some work to build the documentation using lisp. This mostly works,
> but has probably bit-rotted some.
>
>      Alexander> Also, once made loadable via quicklisp, how hard is it to make it
>      Alexander> useable through SLIME?
>      Alexander> (with maxima syntax available, perhaps, via some read macro?)
>
> This already works. Rupert gave the following.  Place the following in
> ~/.maxima/startswank.lisp:
>
>      (require :swank)
>      (swank:create-server :port 56789 :dont-close t)
>
> Then start Maxima and run load("startswank").  To connect, do M-x
> slime-connect using the port specified above.
>
> You can continue to enter maxima commands in the terminal, but you can
> also use slime and a lisp repl to interact with the running maxima.
>
> Ray
>
>
>
>
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