Re: [Axiom-developer] AxiomUI code update

[Kai Kaminski]

Hi Bill,

thanks for trying this on Windows.

Page, Bill wrote:

> Kai,
>
> In your axiomui/README file you wrote:
>  
>
> > ...
> > If you use Windows the software should work, but
> > I can't tell you how to start it. Look at run.sh,
> > run.lisp and axiom-hub.lisp for further info.
> >    
>
> So I thought I would give it a try. First I installed
> clisp-2.34 in a directory path with no spaces c:\clisp-2.34.
> I added c:\clisp-2.34 to the executables PATH and made sure
> that I could run in from the MSDOS command line.
>
> I extracted your
> http://kaikaminski.gmxhome.de/axiomui-17-08-05.tgz
> to c:\axiomui. Then I modified the run.sh to the following
> run.bat file:
>
>  set AXIOMUI_STATIC_PAGES="C:\axiomui\static-pages"
>  clisp -norc -i run.lisp
>
>  
That seems to be right. Please do not forget to also set AXIOM though. 
Alternatively you could change the path to the AXIOMsys executable in 
AXIOM.LISP.

> Typing 'run' produced the following result:
>
> C:\axiomui>run
>
> C:\axiomui>set AXIOMUI_STATIC_PAGES="C:\axiomui\static-pages"
>
> C:\axiomui>clisp -norc -i run.lisp
>  i i i i i i i       ooooo    o        ooooooo   ooooo   ooooo
>  I I I I I I I      8     8   8           8     8     o  8    8
>  I  \ `+' /  I      8         8           8     8        8    8
>   \  `-+-'  /       8         8           8      ooooo   8oooo
>    `-__|__-'        8         8           8           8  8
>        |            8     o   8           8     o     8  8
>  ------+------       ooooo    8oooooo  ooo8ooo   ooooo   8
>
> Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Michael Stoll 1992, 1993
> Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Marcus Daniels 1994-1997
> Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Pierpaolo Bernardi, Sam Steingold 1998
> Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Sam Steingold 1999-2000
> Copyright (c) Sam Steingold, Bruno Haible 2001-2005
>
> ;; Loading file C:\axiomui\run.lisp ...
> ;;  Loading file C:\axiomui\asdf.lisp ...
> ;;  Loaded file C:\axiomui\asdf.lisp
> *** - component "axiom-hub" not found
> The following restarts are available:
> SKIP           :R1      skip this form and proceed
> STOP           :R2      stop loading file
> ABORT          :R3      ABORT
> Break 1 [2]>
>
> ----------
>
> There seems to be something a little non-portable involving
> paths and/or component names in Windows vs. Linux.
>
> In run.lisp you wrote:
>
>  (push #P"." asdf:*central-registry*)
>
> Perhaps you need something involving (truename ".")
> which returns a real Windows path?
>  
That line might well be the problem. To see what you have to put there 
you should start Clisp and evaluate *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*, because 
that is what ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY* is initialized with. That should 
give you an idea of what to put there. I believe that TRUENAME only 
works on files. You could try to set another environment variable, 
AXIOMUI_ROOT say, that contains the right path and then use EXT:GETENV 
(see AXIOM.LISP) to push its content onto ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*.

> But I don't know enough about clisp on Windows to really
> Suggest what might be going wrong here.
>  
I wish I could tell you more, but despite my best efforts I don't have a 
Windows machine to test. If you can get it to work please send me the 
RUN.BAT file, so that I can include it in the future.

If you have further troubles, I'm almost always on #axiom-developer.

Kai