Comments on: Installing SBCL, Emacs, and SLIME on Windows XP http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/ Peter Christensen's Blog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:20:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: __Mario__ http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-858 __Mario__ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:55:02 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-858 Edit src/compiler/x86/parms.lisp, find the section for your OS and change one of the lines to read: (def!constant dynamic-space-end #x10000000) Hope that helps ! -- Mario Edit src/compiler/x86/parms.lisp, find the section for your OS and change one of the lines to read:

(def!constant dynamic-space-end #x10000000)

Hope that helps !

– Mario

]]> By: tonio2 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-857 tonio2 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:10:02 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-857 Thanks, a great useful site ! Thanks, a great useful site !

]]> By: Nelson http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Nelson Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:46:43 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-821 Following the instructions, I am unable to get SBCL to run. When launching slime I get the following start up error: (progn (load "d:/home/bin/emacs/site-lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "d:/DOCUME~1/e127778/LOCALS~1/Temp/slime.3684" :coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix")) VirtualAlloc: 0x1e7. ensure_space: failed to validate 536870912 bytes at 0x09000000 (hint: Try "ulimit -a"; maybe you should increase memory limits.) Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 1 Following the instructions, I am unable to get SBCL to run. When launching slime I get the following start up error:

(progn (load “d:/home/bin/emacs/site-lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp” :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string “swank-loader:init”)) (funcall (read-from-string “swank:start-server”) “d:/DOCUME~1/e127778/LOCALS~1/Temp/slime.3684″ :coding-system “iso-latin-1-unix”))

VirtualAlloc: 0×1e7.
ensure_space: failed to validate 536870912 bytes at 0×09000000
(hint: Try “ulimit -a”; maybe you should increase memory limits.)

Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 1

]]> By: Elliott Slaughter http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-803 Elliott Slaughter Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:34:44 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-803 Oh, and one more thing that you might want to try is Paredit (http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit.el),which makes typing all those parens a LOT easier. Just download the file, and drop it in your /path/to/emacs/lisp/ directory. Then add the following to your .emacs (autoload 'paredit-mode "paredit" "Minor mode for pseudo-structurally editing Lisp code." t) (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (paredit-mode +1))) Then when you open a lisp file and type "(" you should get a ")" with no extra typing. See http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit.html for a complete list of Paredit commands. Enjoy :-) Oh, and one more thing that you might want to try is Paredit (http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit.el),which makes typing all those parens a LOT easier.

Just download the file, and drop it in your /path/to/emacs/lisp/ directory. Then add the following to your .emacs

(autoload ‘paredit-mode “paredit”
“Minor mode for pseudo-structurally editing Lisp code.”
t)
(add-hook ‘lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (paredit-mode +1)))

Then when you open a lisp file and type “(” you should get a “)” with no extra typing.

See http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit.html for a complete list of Paredit commands.

Enjoy :-)

]]> By: Elliott Slaughter http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Elliott Slaughter Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:26:27 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-802 Also, your SLIME configuration works, but there are some new features in CVS which you haven't used (see http://bc.tech.coop/blog/070927.html). For example, instead of (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl") you could use (setq slime-lisp-implementations `((clisp ("clisp" "-K" "full")) (sbcl ("sbcl")))) which (assuming you have both CLISP and SBCL installed and in your PATH) runs CLISP by default when you type "M-x slime", but also allows you to type "M-1-x slime sbcl" to run SBCL. Furthermore, you could define two functions (defun clisp () (interactive) (slime 'clisp)) (defun sbcl () (interactive) (slime 'sbcl)) which would allow you to type "M-x clisp" and "M-x sbcl" to start CLISP and SBCL, respectively. And if you decided that you just didn't like typing at all, you could (global-set-key [f5] 'clisp) (global-set-key [f6] 'sbcl) so that just pressing "f5" or "f6" would start CLISP or SBCL. Enjoy :-) Also, your SLIME configuration works, but there are some new features in CVS which you haven’t used (see http://bc.tech.coop/blog/070927.html). For example, instead of

(setq inferior-lisp-program “sbcl”)

you could use

(setq slime-lisp-implementations
`((clisp (“clisp” “-K” “full”))
(sbcl (“sbcl”))))

which (assuming you have both CLISP and SBCL installed and in your PATH) runs CLISP by default when you type “M-x slime”, but also allows you to type “M-1-x slime sbcl” to run SBCL.

Furthermore, you could define two functions

(defun clisp ()
(interactive)
(slime ‘clisp))

(defun sbcl ()
(interactive)
(slime ’sbcl))

which would allow you to type “M-x clisp” and “M-x sbcl” to start CLISP and SBCL, respectively.

And if you decided that you just didn’t like typing at all, you could

(global-set-key [f5] ‘clisp)
(global-set-key [f6] ’sbcl)

so that just pressing “f5″ or “f6″ would start CLISP or SBCL.

Enjoy :-)

]]> By: Elliott Slaughter http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-801 Elliott Slaughter Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:09:42 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-801 Do you have any plans on adding instructions for ASDF configuration? Next to installing a CL and Emacs/Slime, this was probably the next hardest part when I was starting to learn CL. My personal advice would be to add (require 'asdf) ;; Add any directories in asdf to the registry (dolist (dir (directory "/path/to/asdf-central-repository/*/")) (pushnew dir asdf:*central-registry* :test #'equal)) to your .sbclrc, which should be placed in the directory specified by (user-homedir-pathname). That way, you can just extract (or darcs get) a library into that folder and not have to worry about adding links to the .asd files (which may not work on Windows anyways). There is also an alternative function at http://www.cliki.net/asdf under "Alternative Sysdef Search functionality" in case the wildcard in the argument to directory doesn't have the desired effect (e.g. Allegro). Do you have any plans on adding instructions for ASDF configuration? Next to installing a CL and Emacs/Slime, this was probably the next hardest part when I was starting to learn CL.

My personal advice would be to add

(require ‘asdf)

;; Add any directories in asdf to the registry
(dolist (dir (directory “/path/to/asdf-central-repository/*/”))
(pushnew dir asdf:*central-registry* :test #’equal))

to your .sbclrc, which should be placed in the directory specified by (user-homedir-pathname). That way, you can just extract (or darcs get) a library into that folder and not have to worry about adding links to the .asd files (which may not work on Windows anyways).

There is also an alternative function at http://www.cliki.net/asdf under “Alternative Sysdef Search functionality” in case the wildcard in the argument to directory doesn’t have the desired effect (e.g. Allegro).

]]> By: Elliott Slaughter http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-800 Elliott Slaughter Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:27:52 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-800 I have SBCL installed to the "C:\Program Files\Steel Bank Common Lisp\1.0.13\" folder, and haven't had any problems with either SBCL or Emacs. Your mileage may vary. I have SBCL installed to the “C:\Program Files\Steel Bank Common Lisp\1.0.13\” folder, and haven’t had any problems with either SBCL or Emacs. Your mileage may vary.

]]> By: shiri http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-796 shiri Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:47:17 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-796 Very, very useful... Saved a lot of time for me. Thx. Very, very useful… Saved a lot of time for me. Thx.

]]> By: Hey Language Snobs: Don’t Pinch Pennies » What’s In Peter’s Head http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Hey Language Snobs: Don’t Pinch Pennies » What’s In Peter’s Head Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:57:27 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-635 [...] because of what I’ve written about history, Emacs and SLIME, how to learn Lisp, how to setup an environment, access documentation, and the right mindset for developing in Lisp. Heck, I even organized a [...] [...] because of what I’ve written about history, Emacs and SLIME, how to learn Lisp, how to setup an environment, access documentation, and the right mindset for developing in Lisp. Heck, I even organized a [...]

]]> By: eGlyph http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-emacs-and-slime-on-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-590 eGlyph Sat, 31 May 2008 07:32:18 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=261#comment-590 Note that it's not really necessary to add SBCL_Home to path. There is a weird limit on %PATH% length, so my approach was to create sbcl.cmd with full paths, like: d:\usr\local\sbcl\sbcl.exe --core d:\usr\local\sbcl.core and to supply this .cmd as inferior-lisp to emacs Note that it’s not really necessary to add SBCL_Home to path.
There is a weird limit on %PATH% length, so my approach was to create sbcl.cmd with full paths, like:

d:\usr\local\sbcl\sbcl.exe –core d:\usr\local\sbcl.core

and to supply this .cmd as inferior-lisp to emacs

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