On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Ian Eslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elephant should work with Allegro on Win 32, it was my original development > platform for Elephant, although I haven't tried it in some time. An earlier > version of Elephant worked on Lispworks/Windows although I think I recall > some problems with the latest version of the unstable tree.
Ok. > My impression from the last time I tried it was that SBCL was insufficiently > mature on Win32 to be a reasonable configuration to target. Has this > changed? Is it getting more use? I don't know exactly what qualifies as "more use", but I believe that every SBCL release since about 1.0 builds cleanly on win32, and I don't generally crash it in the sorts of things I work on... although it isn't quite stable enough to remove the "Your Kitten of Death awaits!" warning. > I would check UFFI support first - for running with BDB that's likely to be > the hairy part. Replacing the sb-posix calls for Windows shouldn't be too > hard as Robert mentions. Threads aren't needed for simple apps; I'm > assuming you aren't going to be running this under a lisp web server which > seems to be the most common use of Elephant. UFFI seems to load fine under SBCL/win32, although the test suite fails at compiling gethostname.lisp. (I'm not sure if that is significant or not... it looks like the tests also fail under Allegro/win32, although not in the same way.) My project is actually a video game where I am trying to use persistence in the physical simulation. I don't know if Elephant is actually fast enough to be used for this, but I have had some success with ACache, so I'd like to try :-) -- Elliott Slaughter "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere." - Frank Herbert _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
