At this point I think i'm on the edge of giving up. If it takes this much to install files to make lispbox have a GUI interface, then it is not worth it. I have been trying different combinations all day. I would suggest that a GUI be added to the distribution so it's part of the initial emacs/clisp/slime/wxCL distribution. As a new user I want to play with application design examples, not walk through confusing setups.
Here is some of the issues I had trying to read the application to set up wxCL/ASDF/ASDF-install:
You can also install GnuPG from the Cygwin setup program. If you want to use CLISP you currently have to use the Cygwin version (which can also be installed from the setup application). The good news is that if you use Cygwin you can pretty much pretend you're on Unix and skip all the Windows notes below. If you want to use ASDF-INSTALL on Windows you must install Cygwin first. (Well, why was Cygwin not included in the lispbox package or maybe it was) Depending on if im using cygwin or not, unix or not. etc... asdf-install only handles tar.gz files, (I think it should be extended to handle zip as well)?
I'm pulling hair out at the moment. Corman Lisp or one of the comercial packages are looking better and better. Please help this poor soul out.
On 12/18/05, Surendra Singhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LeAnthony Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for all who have helped, but let me say again that I'm looking for
> some "hand holding" on getting a basic "Hello world" GUI application example
> up and running. If someone had a movie on how it was done it would be a
> great visual blueprint for new users for creating lisp application.
>
> My original task was getting this application to run on my windows machine
> and then sending this simple example to a friend or installing it on a
> machine a work.
>
> Here is how far I have gotten thanks to all those gardeners who have given
> me tips.
>
> 1. Installing LISP
>
> I choose Lispbox. It contains: clisp/emacs/slime
>
> -Peter Seibel Lispbox setup is great
> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lispbox/lispbox.html
>
> But I still had some issues with setup, but this thread at
> www.codecomments.com helped:
> http://www.codecomments.com/Lisp/message688829.html
>
> Task: Installing LISP(done)
>
> Sidenote: I do find emacs/slime/clisp buffer ackward and confusing for
> writing code. I write most of my code in Lispworks(
> http://www.lispworks.com/). Save the file and then use emacs/slime/clisp to
> compile. Maybe because I have not completly grasp (got use to) the key
> acrobatics. Maybe a nice windows IDE appeals so much to me because of my
> old Visual Basic background. But the power of emacs/slime/clisp keeps me
> trying.
>
> 2. Installing GUI library
>
> -I choose wxCL - a Widgets library
>
> -Thanks to Surendra Singhi I downloaded wxcl-1.1.1 - a common LISP Widgets
> library.
> download wxcl-1.1.1 from
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxcl/wxcl-1.1.1.zip?download
Please download wxCL 1.2.0.
> I unzip it in the directory I have lispworks stuff in.
> I used Surendra's wxCL quick start guide to do some surgery on the file
> wxcl.lisp so that it would contain the relative paths so my specific
> computer could see the widgets library.
>
> Then the easy part ended: the intricacies of asdf stopped my progress.
> -I downloaded the widgets library and set the paths in the wxCL directory,
> but how do I tell the asdf to look for this new folder for the widgets.
> -Surendra's guide says that I can use the asdf to load the wxcl.asd. This
> is very confusing. And Dr. Edmund Weitz(
> http://www.weitz.de/asdf-install/) nice tutorial on how to use
> asdf-install does not help.
If you have asdf, and asdf-install set up and configured (follow the tutorial)
then this line below is what you need to execute to install wxCL.
(asdf-install:install "c:/wxcl-1.2.0.tar.gz")
asdf-install only handles tar.gz files (I think it should be extended to
handle zip as well).
asdf-install is a very powerful tool to know about, and have properly set
up. Say you want to install a library which parses xml files (say s-xml), the
only thing which you need to do is
(asdf-install:install :s-xml)
Cheers.
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Surendra Singhi
http://www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi/index.html
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