Comments on: Installing CLISP, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP

By: isa

isa — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:57:23 +0000

I used cygwin’s setup.exe to install CLISP.
The recipe in the article did not work for me, I got this error message:
/usr/bin/clisp: P:/cygwin/lib/clisp-2.48/full/base/lisp.exe: No such file or directory

That was easy to fix, the paths in my case must be:
-B P:/cygwin/lib/clisp-2.48
-M P:/cygwin/lib/clisp-2.48/base/lispinit.mem

To discover them, I used
strace.exe clisp.exe | grep lispinit
CTRL+D

By: Draufwalker

Draufwalker — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:13:29 +0000

I don’t have got a M-Key. for they who can’t run the

M-x eval-buffer

Command ->
Use the ESC or ALT-Key instead (on a german Keyboard)

Thanks for this Great Tutorial
I think Lisp is quite a freaky language after 6 years of C++ Java Basic and Assembler^^ freaky but great

By: Spike

Spike — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:47:45 +0000

Thanks a lot.

I had to change

(setq inferior-lisp-program “[HOME]/bin/clisp/full/lisp.exe
-B [HOME]/bin/clisp/full
-M [HOME]/bin/clisp/full/lispinit.mem
-ansi -q”)

into

(setq inferior-lisp-program “clisp”)

to pass “Spawning child process: invalid argument” when typing M-x slime

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:40:38 +0000

BTW: first google hit for “emacs slime windows”
Congratulations.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:39:32 +0000

Thanks alot. It is a good think that there are people out there who help the people that are not using *nix.

By: Gishu Pillai

Gishu Pillai — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:40:49 +0000

Walkthrough verified for Win7 (x64) + Emacs v23.2 + CLisp v2.49 + Slime 2011-01-12 snapshot. Thanks a ton!
I had to pay my respects.. thanks Peter for this huge post. Peter Siebel’s book is one I meant to get cracking on for a while.. finally I started on it this year + I ran into LispInABox. Sadly for Win7 on a x64 machine, the REPL loop keeps hanging frequently; and there are no recent releases of it. I had CLisp up and running + but now missed Slime mid-way through the book… More ‘will-sapping’ running from site to site.. And then Google kindly led me to you.

By: Aditya Singh

Aditya Singh — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:37:51 +0000

Thanks a lot Peter. Just starting off on lisp for the fun of it.

Also, thank you Dan for suggesting retyping of ” when directly copying and pasting the .emacs file entries.

By: Andrew Pennebaker

Andrew Pennebaker — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:25:31 +0000

I completely agree. I had to go through hell to get a working CLISP/Aquamacs/SLIME/Quicklisp setup on Mac OS X.

If you’re still looking for a good TAR.GZ extractor for Windows, I recommend 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) or PeaZip (http://www.peazip.org/).

By: MattAttack

MattAttack — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:32:02 +0000

I was using Allegro’s simple Windows friendly one click install lisp-in-a-box until they decided to stop supporting it, which brought me to a couple of hours of slogging to get SLIME running with a different LISP configuration.

You saved me Peter. You’re my hero.

One note on your .emacs incantations however: I had to remove “-ansi -q” before emacs cooperated. But other than that you have probably single handedly helped me live longer healthier life.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:32:34 +0000

I’m using XP, Slime, Emacs, SBCL and I’m having an error based on my misunderstanding of setting the correct path. I’m new to XP and finding the .emacs file in the Applications Data directory was a little strange. My problem has to do with the loading of Slime. In my .emacs I defined the full path name rather than sbcl. Could it be choking on something in the long path?

when I M-x slime
I get
apply: Spawning child process: invalid argument
My .emacs is

(setq inferior-lisp-program “c:/Program Files/Steel Bank Common Lisp/1.0.37/sbcl”)
(add-to-list ‘load-path “c:/Program Files/slime/”)
(require ‘slime)
(slime-setup)

Great blog BTW