Greetings,
Matus

I just ran into the exact same issue and was able to fix it. The problem is that the copy of slime that emacs was using was out of date. You can download a new one here:
http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/#downloading

Then in your .emacs file update the load-path to point to where ever you have unpacked this latest copy of slime.

Once I did that I was up and running in Emacs with slime using SBCL on WindowsXP.

HTH,

- Tedd

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Rem SCBL launcher
sbcl.exe –core sbcl.core
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Here sbcl.core and sbcl.exe both exists in the same directory.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have been trying to get SBCL/SLIME set up on Windows XP, and can get EMACS to work, but run into a problem with M-x slime, as below.

This smells like a ridiculously simple problem, but one I do not know how to fix.

I will really appreciate any help.

Thanks.

(load “c:/home/bin/emacs/site-lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp” :verbose t)
(swank:start-server “c:/DOCUME~1/USER/LOCALS~1/Temp/slime.8068″ :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix)

This is SBCL 1.0.37, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at .

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.

This is experimental prerelease support for the Windows platform: use
at your own risk. “Your Kitten of Death awaits!”
*
; loading #P”c:\\home\\bin\\emacs\\site-lisp\\slime\\swank-loader.lisp”
;; loading #P”C:\\Documents and Settings\\USER\\.slime\\fasl\\2006-04-20\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-backend.fasl”
;; loading #P”C:\\Documents and Settings\\USER\\.slime\\fasl\\2006-04-20\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\nregex.fasl”

; compiling file “c:\\home\\bin\\emacs\\site-lisp\\slime\\swank-sbcl.lisp” (written 19 APR 2006 06:18:54 PM):

; file: c:\home\bin\emacs\site-lisp\slime\swank-sbcl.lisp
; in: DEFIMPLEMENTATION ARGLIST
; (SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST SWANK-BACKEND::FNAME)
;
; caught WARNING:
; (in macroexpansion of (SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST FNAME))
; (hint: For more precise location, try *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*.)
; using deprecated SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST, should use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead
;
; compilation aborted because of fatal error:
; SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR at 31205 (line 793, column 39) on #:
; Symbol “DEBUG-SOURCE-FROM” not found in the SB-DI package.
; ; compilation aborted after 0:00:01.860

debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR:
Couldn’t load
#P”C:\\Documents and Settings\\USER\\.slime\\fasl\\2006-04-20\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-sbcl.fas”l:
file does not exist.

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(LOAD
#P”C:\\Documents and Settings\\USER\\.slime\\fasl\\2006-04-20\\sbcl-1.0.37-win32-x86\\swank-sbcl.fasl”)[:EXTERNAL]
0] swank-sbcl.fas C-c C-c
Process inferior-lisp interrupt

I’m using XP, Slime, Emacs …
Great blog BTW

It works without using the full path I amazed maybe I should stop hating XP, No that would be silly.

Great Blog -f

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

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

Hope that helps !

– Mario

(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 0×09000000
(hint: Try “ulimit -a”; maybe you should increase memory limits.)

Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 1