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- From: G.Carpenter@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Graham J Carpenter)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.x
- Subject: Sun Common Lisp 4.0, CLX R5 and windows module support
- Keywords: CLX R5, windows, Sun Common Lisp
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.193800.27072@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 19:38:00 GMT
- Sender: ees1gc@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Graham J Carpenter)
- Organization: University of Surrey, England
- Lines: 33
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- We have recently run into some problems with a number of lisp applications (including
- Knowledgecraft) running on Sun Common Lisp version 4.0, with the supplied windows-x
- module, when we try to use a display running an X11R5 server.
-
- As a system admin person I am not a LISP user, so I'm fumbling in the dark a bit, but I
- made a guess that we needed a newer version of CLX to work against an X11R5 server...
- does this sound right so far?
-
- We grabbed the CLX R5 package, compiled and loaded it into a Lisp image and then tried to
- load Knowledgecraft, which complained that the WINDOWS module was not defined.
-
- Looking in the Sun Common Lisp 'goodies' directory there is a windows directory which looks
- like the source for the 'windows' support which we are missing, but I have no idea how to
- compile and load this stuff in.... so I'm baffled.
-
- Is there some kind soul out there who can give me a set of nice explicit instructions:
-
- Grab this
- Compile this by typing .....
- Load that by typing.....
- Do a disksave (Yup, I actually know how to do one of those ;-)
-
- So that I can start from a lisp-4-0-base and get a system with CLX R5, windows support,
- editor-windows support and any of the other Sun type modules all working nicely with an
- X11R5 server. Then (hopefully), I can load Knowledgecraft and my users will be happy and I
- won't have to take the regressive step of going back to X11R4 on my system.
-
- Or is this all just wishful thinking?
-
- Thanks in advance from a desperate Sys Admin!
-
- --
- Graham Carpenter
-