Error when loading osicat on SBCL-win32

[Thomas Bartscher]

When doing

(ql:quickload "osicat")

I get the following error:

 

Couldn't fork child process: No error

 

and the following output in SLIME:

 

To load "osicat":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    osicat
; Loading "osicat"
; c:/msys/1.0/bin/gcc.exe -m32 -I/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Sekundär/Lokale Einstellungen/Anwendungsdaten/common-lisp/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.10.7.1/ -o C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Sekundär\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\common-lisp\cache\sbcl-1.0.58.0.mswinmt.1199-ab13dc3-win-x86\+ql\dists\quicklisp\software\osicat-20120407-git\posix\basic-unixint.exe C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Sekundär\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\common-lisp\cache\sbcl-1.0.58.0.mswinmt.1199-ab13dc3-win-x86\+ql\dists\quicklisp\software\osicat-20120407-git\posix\basic-unixint.c

 

Here the backtrace until before calls in the SWANK package:

  0: (RUN-PROGRAM ..)
  1: (CFFI-GROVEL::%INVOKE ..)
  2: (CFFI-GROVEL::INVOKE ..)

  3: ((LAMBDA () :IN CFFI-GROVEL:PROCESS-GROVEL-FILE))
  4: (SB-IMPL::%WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA # :IN CFFI-GROVEL:PROCESS-GROVEL-FILE) {255070E5}>)
  5: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD ASDF:PERFORM (ASDF:COMPILE-OP CFFI-GROVEL:GROVEL-FILE)) ..)
  6: ((SB-PCL::EMF ASDF:PERFORM) #<unavailable argument> #<unavailable argument> #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP (:VERBOSE NIL) {246FEE01}> #<CFFI-GROVEL:GROVEL-FILE "osicat" "posix" "basic-unixint">)
  7: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD ASDF:PERFORM :AROUND (ASDF:COMPILE-OP CFFI-GROVEL::CC-FLAGS-MIXIN)) ..)
  8: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD ASDF::PERFORM-WITH-RESTARTS :AROUND (T T)) ..)
  9: ((LAMBDA () :IN ASDF::PERFORM-PLAN))
 10: ((FLET SB-THREAD::WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK-THUNK :IN SB-C::%WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT))
 11: ((FLET #:WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS-BODY-102274 :IN SB-THREAD::CALL-WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK))
 12: (SB-THREAD::CALL-WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK ..)
 13: ((FLET SB-C::WITH-IT :IN SB-C::%WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT))
 14: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD ASDF::PERFORM-PLAN (LIST)) ..)
 15: ((LAMBDA () :IN ASDF:OPERATE))
 16: (ASDF::CALL-WITH-SYSTEM-DEFINITIONS #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA # :IN ASDF:OPERATE) {246C5E1D}>)
 17: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD ASDF:OPERATE (T T)) #<unused argument> #<unused argument> ASDF:LOAD-OP "osicat" :VERBOSE NIL)
 18: ((SB-PCL::EMF ASDF:OPERATE) #<unused argument> #<unused argument> ASDF:LOAD-OP "osicat" :VERBOSE NIL)
 19: (QUICKLISP-CLIENT::CALL-WITH-MACROEXPAND-PROGRESS #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA # :IN QUICKLISP-CLIENT::APPLY-LOAD-STRATEGY) {246C5CFD}>)
 20: (QUICKLISP-CLIENT::AUTOLOAD-SYSTEM-AND-DEPENDENCIES "osicat" :PROMPT NIL)
 21: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD QL-IMPL-UTIL::%CALL-WITH-QUIET-COMPILATION (T T)) ..)
 22: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD QL-IMPL-UTIL::%CALL-WITH-QUIET-COMPILATION :AROUND (QL-IMPL:SBCL T)) ..)
 23: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD QUICKLISP-CLIENT:QUICKLOAD (T)) #<unused argument> #<unused argument> #<unavailable argument> :PROMPT NIL :VERBOSE NIL)
 24: (QL-DIST::CALL-WITH-CONSISTENT-DISTS #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA # :IN QUICKLISP-CLIENT:QUICKLOAD) {24FB2405}>)
 25: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (QUICKLISP-CLIENT:QUICKLOAD "osicat") #<NULL-LEXENV>)
 26: (EVAL (QUICKLISP-CLIENT:QUICKLOAD "osicat"))

 

I have no idea what that means.

[Zach Beane]

Thomas Bartscher <thomas.b...@gmail.com> writes:

> When doing
> (ql:quickload "osicat")
> I get the following error:
>
> Couldn't fork child process: No error

I'm afraid I don't know what that might mean. Does osicat normally work
on windows, that is, outside of Quicklisp? It might be worth contacting
the author to verify.

Zach

[Luís Oliveira]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Thomas Bartscher
<thomas.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ; c:/msys/1.0/bin/gcc.exe

You probably don't have gcc.exe in that path. You need to install
MinGW and point cffi-grovel:*cc* to wherever you've installed gcc.exe.

--
Luís Oliveira
http://r42.eu/~luis/

[Thomas Bartscher]

Oh, well, than that's that.

Thank you.