Re: Installing libraries

Aha, so Cygwin is the key. I was just being frustrated that windows is such a poor environment to be running unix software. Buying this machine was a huge mistake, my new Mac should be arriving in a few days.

As for config directory, lispbox is setup so that it requires no installation/configuration for newbies. So now I run into all sorts of limitations because it doesn't use the .emacs or the Lisp initialization files. I don't know exactly how it works. Can someone just walk me through how to setup a Non-lispbox installation of Clisp, emacs and slime+ASDF-INSTALL? I've been reading all these online tutorials on how to do it and all of them are written for Unix systems with maybe a footnote on windows.

-Jeff

Alan Manuel K. Gloria wrote:
Some more stuff. The instructions to install are in:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/cclan/asdf-install/doc/index.html

There are two very important points:
You MUST ADD this to your lisp initialization/lisp core file:
(pushnew 'asdf-install:sysdef-source-dir-search
asdf:*system-definition-search-functions*)
If you change ASDF-INSTALL:*locations*, make sure to add a trailing /
to directory names:
(setq asd-install:*locations*
(list
(list
#p"e:/lisp/.asdf-install-dir/site/"
#p"e:/lisp/.asdf-install-dir/system/" ;;the last / is important!!
"Personal Installation" )))


ASDF is SEPARATE from ASDF-INSTALL. ASDF is the system that defines
systems. ASDF-INSTALL installs libraries that conform to that system
and let ASDF load those libraries. This confused me horribly (me
stupid noob), so I thought that I'd advise you more about it.

ASDF-INSTALL *requires* Cygwin to work on a WinXP OS. If you're in the
Philippines, look for the .jp domain when Cygwin asks you where you
want to download (Unlikely that you're Filipino, but just in case
someone else out there is.).

If you're willing to dig through my previously posted thread and parse
out the stuff about my new girlfriend (girlfriend for 161.5 hours so
far!), you'll pretty much just get the above advice in the end.

.

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