I seem to have forgotten to send this to the asdf-devel list, in case
anyone is interested:
In the meantime, Robert's suggestion of looking at
(uiop:xdg-data-dirs "config/")
yielded a list containing C:\\Users\\Greg\\AppData\\Roaming\\config\ and
C:\\ProgramData\\Application Data\\config\
On the basis of no hard evidence, I took it that the latter is where
applications rather than humans would put things.
I worked my way down the former, creating directories and files as
needed. I had to do some of this in a terminal
since my W11 would not show hidden directories or files (despite having
set them to be shown in the Views menu).
The result is that gb-source.conf as described below now lives in
C:\\Users\\Greg\\AppData\\Roaming\\config\\common-lisp\\source-registry.conf.d\
In a brand new Allegro, with (require :asdf) I can now issue
(asdf:load-system "gb-a") and have
it run correctly.
I have not tried the other possibility, being satisfied, and relieved,
that one works!
Thanks Robert for your time, patience and suggestion, and Marco for the
pointer to CL-FAD which I have used
in other circumstances.
Cheers
Greg
On 2023-06-03 11:57, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
Ahem. Shameless plug: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/mantoniotti/CLAD
Cheers
MA
On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 5:28 PM Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.info> wrote:
Dear Greg,
Thanks for the kind words! I am not sure why I didn't see your
post on ASDF-devel, but I didn't. And I have seen several requests
for moderation, so the list seems live. In case my response is
interesting to the group, I am responding to the list as well.
A couple of disclaimers: (1) I haven't used Windows in more than a
decade, and (2) I don't use these configuration files. I find I'm
happier to keep all of my lisp configuration in lisp configuration
files (|clinit.cl <http://clinit.cl>|, |.sbclrc|, etc. -- indeed I
point all of those at one single |lisp-config.lisp| file), instead
of having to hunt through multiple files in multiple locations for
this information. So take anything I say with more than a grain of
salt (given your cardiologist approves!).
That said, these config files are placed according to the XDG
standard which... as far as I can tell only applies to linux, and
not to either Windows or MacOS. So there's code in ASDF/UIOP that
extends XDG to other platforms. ASDF documentation about XDG can
be found here
<https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/asdf.html#XDG-base-directory>.
I don't understand Windows enough to understand this piece of text
from the ASDF manual:
Since support for querying the Windows registry is not
possible to do in reasonable amounts of portable Common Lisp
code, ASDF 3 relies on the environment variables that Windows
usually exports, and are hopefully in synch with the Windows
registry. If you care about the details, see
uiop/configuration.lisp and don’t hesitate to suggest
improvements.
The relevant code may be found in uiop/configuration.lisp
<https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/blob/release/uiop/configuration.lisp>.
It looks like invoking the functions |uiop:xdg-config-home| and
|uiop:xdg-config-pathnames| might help you figure out where ASDF
is looking. But I don't really understand the discussion about the
registry above. I do see a bit of code that says that UIOP (and
thus ASDF) look for configs in the value of |(uiop:xdg-data-dirs
"config/")| -- maybe see what that evaluates to on your Windows box?
I hope that these snippets have been helpful, and if you find the
answers you seek, please send to me and ASDF-devel, so that the
information will be available to others.
It might be a good thing if someone with the resources would gift
a Windows resource to the CL Foundation to hook into
|common-lisp.net <http://common-lisp.net>| so that the community
doesn't have to rely on this kind of guesswork. I note that ASDF
is no longer tested on Windows at all, since I don't have access
to a Windows VM and even if I did, I wouldn't know how to use it
(nor do I have the time to learn).
Good luck!
R
On 2 Jun 2023, at 19:40, Greg Bennett wrote:
Good evening Robert,
Some longish time ago you were kind enough to help me with
ASDF matters.
I posted recently to asdf-devel, largely in the hope that you
might see it, I confess.
Web search has, so far, not been helpful, I'm afraid.
I shall quite understand if you do not reply; your inbox must
receive lots of this sort of thing.
I have a test system in c:/ASDF/asdf-tests/ copied from the
linux directory /home/gwbennett/ASDF/asdf-tests/
Under Linux in my source-registry.conf.d directory I have the
file gb-source.conf
with the one line (:tree "/home/gwbennett/ASDF/asdf-tests/")
Then in sbcl I can issue (asdf:load-system "gb-a") and all is
well.
I have tried various spots for gb-source.conf under Windows,
all without success:
c:\Users\Greg\AppData\Local\config\common-lisp\source-registry.conf.d\
c:\Users\Greg\
c:\Users\Greg\AppData\
c:\Users\Greg\AppData\Local\
If I issue, old style, (push "c:/ASDF/asdf-tests/"
asdf:*central-registry*) then all is well.
Perhaps there is no place for a config file under W!
Cheers
Greg
