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McCLIM + gtkairo

Using sbcl 0.9.13

This is mostly a quick list of steps to get mcclim and the gtkairo backend working on a Linux system.

If you have never installed McCLIM before...

McCLIM and the Lisp libraries it uses are all built using ASDF. If you are not familiar with ASDF or asdf-install, here are the basics:

First, we need to get the relevant files, and put them somewhere of use. Define a $HOME/.sbclrc file with the following:

(require 'asdf)
(push 
    (truename "/home/user/lisptoplevel/systems/")
    asdf:*central-registry*)

Then in the system directory, I download (using cvs, tarball, etc.) the libs needed, and symlink their asd files to the systems directory.

You need spatial-trees, clx, and cffi.

The way McCLIM system file is currently written, you need CLX even if you want to use clim-gtkairo instead of clim-clx.

CFFI is for gtkairo.

 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/mcclim/cvsroot co mcclim
ln -s mcclim/mcclim.asd .
wget http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/lisp/sbcl/clx_0.7.3.tar.gz
tar -xvzf clx_0.7.3.tar.gz
ln -s clx_0.7.3/clx.asd .
wget http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/lisp/cclan/spatial-trees.tar.gz
tar -xvzf spatial-trees.tar.gz
ln -s spatial-trees-0.2/spatial-trees.asd .
wget http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/releases/cffi_0.9.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf cffi_0.9.1.tar.gz

Gsharp isn't needed but can be used as a test application - anyway, it's not hard to add if you want it. Actually, climacs and Beirc are probably better test cases for gtkairo.

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/gsharp/cvsroot co gsharp
ln -s gsharp/gsharp.asd .
wget http://www.common-lisp.net/project/flexichain/download/flexichain_latest.tgz
tar -xvzf flexichain_latest.tgz
ln -s flexichain/flexichain.asd .
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/climacs/cvsroot co esa
ln -s esa/esa.asd .

Building the System

Make sure you have installed cffi as explained above.

You will also need GTK+ development files. On Debian, use

apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

The next three commands should build everything you need (really the first two, but the examples are what you will use for testing):

(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :mcclim)
(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :clim-gtkairo)
(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :clim-examples)

(Alternatively, you can do (push :gtkairo *features*) before building mcclim. Then clim-gtkairo is automatically built as part of the mcclim system.)

Checking for a Working Build

Before going straight to gsharp, we will check one of the standard examples:

(clim-demo::run-test 'clim-demo::demodemo)

If this works, you now have functioning gtkairo based McCLIM.

Gsharp

To build the Gsharp system, type

(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :gsharp)

To run it, enter

(gsharp:gsharp)

Note that gsharp currently has some display glitches on Gtkairo. Climacs and Beirc are probably better test cases until the gsharp developers fix this issue.

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