Re: FW: [Gcl-devel] gcl help

[Eric Parker]

--- Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:

> Greetings, and thanks!
> 
> "Mike Thomas" <address@hidden>
> writes:
> 
> > Camm,
> > 
> > Have you any ideas.  It looks like Eric is having
> BFD configuration problems
> > causing undefined CONST in "o/fat_string.h".
> > 
> > Eric, what arguments did you pass to configure
> before typing make?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Mike Thomas.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Thursday, 14 October 2004 4:46 AM
> > To: Mike Thomas
> > Subject: RE: [Gcl-devel] gcl help
> > 
> > 
> > --- Mike Thomas
> <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > | > So I tried to get a newer version of GCL,
> but I
> > > | > can't
> > > | > install anything higher than GCL-2.4.4.
> > > | >
> > > | > For example, when I try to make GCL-2.6.0,
> the
> > > | > script
> > > | > runs for quite a while until it tries to do
> > > "gcl-tk
> > > | > fat_string.c". Then it exits with "parse
> error".
> > >
> > > Could you let us know your platform and send an
> > > exact cut and paste
> > > transcript of your build output?
> > 
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > I'm running Mandrake Linux 8.1.
> > 
> > I have attached the *error* output to this
> message.
> > 
> > Do you need the *output* messages as well? Or just
> the
> > *error* output? I can't do cut and paste from my
> > xterm, i can just redirect the 'standard error'
> and
> > 'standard output' descriptors to a file.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> >
> > addmul_1.asm: 220: warning, simulating cmov with
> jump, use for testing only
> > addmul_1.asm: 221: warning, simulating cmov with
> jump, use for testing only
> > submul_1.asm: 220: warning, simulating cmov with
> jump, use for testing only
> > submul_1.asm: 221: warning, simulating cmov with
> jump, use for testing only
> > mod_1.asm: 142: warning, simulating cmov with
> jump, use for testing only
> > mod_1.asm: 217: warning, simulating cmov with
> jump, use for testing only
> > mod_1.asm: 282: warning, simulating cmov with
> jump, use for testing only
> > sqr_basecase.asm: 439: warning, simulating cmov
> with jump, use for testing
> > only
> > sqr_basecase.asm: 440: warning, simulating cmov
> with jump, use for testing
> > only
> > main.c: In function `fLbye':
> > main.c:572: warning: control reaches end of
> non-void function
> 
> These are not recognizable from any recent version. 

Really? These are from gcl-2.6.0cvs-1. This is not
recent?

> configure has some code to detect a bad CONST define
> in bfd AFAICR.
> But if you have any difficulty with this alone, you
> can easily do
> ./configure --disable-statsysbfd --enable-locbfd.

Yup. That's got it, Camm. Thanks.

However, as Mike anticipated, installing a newer
version of GCL didnt really solve my problem,
unfortunately.

I have spent the past 6 years developing an AI
algorithm using Lisp. Now I want to use my Lisp
reasoning engine in an application. But most of the
applications I'm looking at are written in C. So how
do I get a standalone binary of my Lisp program that
can be linked into a C program?

(si::save-system...) wont work for me because when you
run the executable it invokes the Lisp interpreter.
That is not what I want.

It just seems to me that at this late day and age
there ought to be an easy way to develop
mixed-language programs, e.g. C + Lisp. Apparently I
am expecting too much, because I've been researching
the topic for some time now and I'm not getting
anywhere with it.

Of course, maybe I'm dumb ;)

Can anyone help me?

Eric