Comments on: Cross-Platform Development

By: pat

pat — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:41:44 +0000

It was ECL (not CCL) where the hashtables were the trouble. (Of course, looking at trivial-garbage, I am guessing you just typoed here.) Sheeple works with CCL. (CL-OpenGL doesn’t on my Mac.)

I should poke around weak key hashtables in ECL sometime.

By: Robert Goldman (rpg)

Robert Goldman (rpg) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:00:13 +0000

As far as weak-hashtables are concerned, I wonder if you could get them across lisps by putting trivial-garbage into sheeple?

Hm. No, looking at this, it looks like CCL isn’t supported by trivial-garbage. I wonder what it would take to get it supported?

By: pat

pat — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:02:53 +0000

As nearly as I can figure, this is a global extended header see the XGLTYPE in this code with reference to documentation here and some interesting info here.

By: pat

pat — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:44:50 +0000

Absolutely. I should also mention though that without archive, I’d have never even bothered trying to get all of these libraries and dependencies set up under Windows.

I am pretty sure that Josh uses a Linux box to develop Sheeple. And, I know that Zach uses a Mac at least sometimes, but it wouldn’t surprise me if his last release of ZPB-TTF was from a Linux box.

I untarred the offenders on my Mac and tarred them back up again with /usr/bin/tar on my Mac and they worked for me.

Here are the originals: sheeple_3.0.1.tar.gz and zpb-ttf.tgz.

Here is the error message (through ASDF-Install):

;;; ASDF-INSTALL: Installing SHEEPLE in C:\Users\Patrick\ASDF-Systems\, C:\Users\Patrick\ASDF-Systems\
 
debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR: Can't understand typeflag: 103
 
Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
 
restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
 
((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD ARCHIVE:READ-ENTRY-FROM-ARCHIVE (ARCHIVE:TAR-ARCHIVE)
 #<unavailable argument>
 #<unavailable argument>
 #<ARCHIVE:TAR-ARCHIVE {2423CE81}>)
0]

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:25:43 +0000

If you wouldn’t mind explaining in greater detail the problems with archive that you encountered, or even just sending the problematic tarballs, I’d appreciate an email so I can try fixing those bugs. I admit that win32 development has not been a priority for archive, since the tar format is so unix-centric. Thanks!

By: pat

pat — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:42:58 +0000

For those playing the home-game, Allegro was not seeing the definition of the FUN macro in Sheeple's utils.lisp file while compiling the ACONSF macro further down in that same file. This was easily side-stepped (pronounced: hacked around) by moving the FUN macro declaration into a file that gets compiled before utils.lisp. And, when I try to load cl-glut under Clozure in Mac OS X, I get a Trace/BPT Trap. I'm not sure why. I haven't spent any time really trying to work around that problem.