I am trying to get Common Lisp running on my Windows 10 machine and I have run into a problem with getting ASDF/(ql:quickload "...") to load a project. I generated the given project with the following command (after creating a C:\Users\ig88t\src\lisp folder):
(ql:quickload "quickproject")
(quickproject:make-project "~/src/lisp/swatchblade/" :depends-on '(vecto hunchentoot))
Which correctly generates the project and I can view the source at ~/src/lisp/swatchblade.
But I am unable to load it via
(ql:quickload "swatchblade")
Instead of loading, I get an error saying
System "swatchblade" not found [Condition of type QUICKLISP-CLIENT:SYSTEM-NOT-FOUND]
I am going by two manuals, one that Xach wrote and another tailored for Windows. Xach recommends ~/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d/projects.conf whereas the second recommends ~/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d/asdf.conf. I am currently using the version Xach wrote as it has worked for me on Linux.
Going by the manual for ASDF it seems that ~/AppData/Local/ is where I should store .config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d/projects.conf. I have tried storing it at ~/AppData/Local/config/... as well as ~/AppData/Local/.config/... to no avail. I noticed that Clozure CL installs some quicklisp data in ~/AppData/Local/common-lisp, so I tried putting the source-registry.conf.d folder there as in ~/AppData/Local/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d/projects.conf as well but it didn't work.
I have tried a lot of different variations of placing the folder in different places but I have not managed to figure out the right one. I would really appreciate any help/suggestions by anyone using Common Lisp and Quicklisp on Windows.
I am using Clozure CL, 1.11.5, and the wx86cl64 binary which comes with ASDF version 3.1.5 in case that matters.
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After talking with Xach about this issue, I tried:
(quickproject:make-project "~/quicklisp/local-projects/swatch" :depends-on '(vecto hunchentoot))
and then ran:
(ql:register-local-projects)
but upon running:
(ql:quickload "swatch")
it failed yet again with:
System "swatch" not found [Condition of type QUICKLISP-CLIENT:SYSTEM-NOT-FOUND]
He said it might be related to this PR for quickproject.
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I recently tried using SBCL and things seemed to be working. I could create projects using quickproject and load them. Note that I am unable to load projects created with quickproject under CCL. However, when I restart slime/emacs, I am unable to load any projects previously created under SBCL.
; SLIME 2.20
CL-USER> (ql:quickload "quickproject")
To load "quickproject":
Load 1 ASDF system:
quickproject
; Loading "quickproject"
("quickproject")
CL-USER> (quickproject:make-project "~/quicklisp/local-projects/test/"
:depends-on '(vecto))
"test"
CL-USER> (ql:quickload "test")
To load "test":
Load 1 ASDF system:
test
; Loading "test"
[package test]
("test")
CL-USER>
--- intermission... restarting slime ---
; SLIME 2.20
CL-USER> (ql:quickload "test")
; Evaluation aborted on #<QUICKLISP-CLIENT:SYSTEM-NOT-FOUND {10034555B3}>.
CL-USER>
So I have no clue what could be causing the issue or how to resolve it, but it appears that creating/loading projects never works under Clozure CL and to works only within the current session in SBCL.
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It seems I was wrong about SBCL. It seems that when I run
(quickproject:make-project "~/quicklisp/local-projects/test/"
:depends-on '(vecto))
It creates a folder in C:\Users\ig88t\AppData\Roaming\quicklisp\local-projects and not in C:\Users\ig88t\quicklisp\local-projects. It can load projects created within the current session as I said earlier, but is unable to find them in a new session.
