Re: [Sbcl-help] Semi-functional Windows package

[Faré <fa...@gm...>]

On 14 April 2011 00:47, Roman Marynchak <rom...@gm...> wrote:
> For the correct core lookup, set SBCL_HOME env. variable to c:\Program
> Files\Steel Bank Common Lisp\1.0.37\
>
It would be nice for the default value to be more sensible than
/usr/local/lib/sbcl
and/or for the installer to fix up a registry entry, environment variable, etc.

> Kittens of Death is already reported in LP.
OK. Is there a semi-official maintainer for Windows?

> The last failure is due to the launcher program sensitivity to spaces, so it
> thinks that C:/Program is a path to the application, and the rest components
> are arguments. Quoting the full path should help.
Maybe. But interestingly, the first attempt, which calls SBCL with
space-less arguments, works fine. So why in one case it works and in
the other it doesn't, seems interesting.

Thanks to all the hackers here for SBCL!

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