Closed djon3s closed 2 years ago
Really strange. I use portacle often with no issues. It seems to not like return characters in the FORMAT strings which is bizarre. I'll try and reproduce and let you know. It is likely some installation issue some place. How old is the portacle installation?
Issue apparently is with git and the crlf settings. Sbcl doesn’t like crlf when ~ is used to continue strings. Try configure your git to use Unix line endings or use the shell in portacle/emacs and the git that comes with portacle and let me know if solved.
use the shell in portacle/emacs and the git that comes with portacle and let me know if solved.
ah, brilliant! Yes I just fumbled about trying to install git and a shell externally, that serves me right for leaving emacs xD I think I might have done this with M-x ansi-term which is how I used to roll, but this time I just went with M-x eshell and it worked & first tutorial loaded.
Many thanks
First time running and many years since I last programmed, I saw your clog tutorials and was inspired. I remember how much I enjoyed lisp the few times I used it. Thanks for your offerings. Please let me know if this is the sort of issue you are happy to hear about or if it's a bit much, I can see the beauty of your creation and don't want to impinge on a developer doing good.
the situation is I've got Portacle on windows, I've installed the SQL binaries to the /win/lib subdirectory of portacle, updated quicklisp client
(ql:update-dist "quicklisp")
and updated the client(ql:update-client)
and also installed clog from git where portacle expects quicklisp systems in its /projects directoryrunning (ql:quickload :clog) after sometime downloading and compiling various packages spits out...
looking down at the back trace (skipping the first few lines)
when it returns to the repl
Apologies for the verbosity, as I'm just rekindling the fire and love for programming again and haven't yet developed the required eyes to analyse the stack traces Common lisp gives.
Many thanks for your sage guidance and attentions :)
Thank you for your offerings of software I can see from the demos this is potentially quite empowering to newbs and a human way of working.
I'm sure I could get it going just by installing on debian at this stage to follow the demos. Maybe it's something to do with portacle for windows in which case I could give a go at a patch for them if I had any indication what the problem could be. By the way it dumped on a foreign function interface, my guessing is something changed in whatever library that called on the system side.