Error while installing aserve(AllegroServe)

[yixin li]

Hi everyone, I am new to lisp (and to programming in general) and am learning lisp with the book Practical Common Lisp. Accordng to chapter 26 I need to build a web application with the web server AllegroServe.

So I downloaded the software from GitHub and try (load "directory-name/load.cl") in my REPL. An error occured:

"There is no package named "USER"".

I tried the option "[MAKE-NICKNAME] Make "USER" be a nickname for package "CL-USER"" from the Restarts. And then another error occured:

"Module SOCK was not provided by any function on CCL:*MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*."

So I tried to install aserve with quicklisp. I tried (ql:quickload "aserve") and one more time, an error occured:

"There is no applicable method for the generic function:
#<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION MAKE-INSTANCE #xC00FC3E>
when called with arguments:
(#<CCL:FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS CL-SOURCE-FILE.CL>)"

I use Clozure CL from lispbox and my OS is windows 7. I download AllegroServe from https://github.com/franzinc/aserve .

I don't know how to handle these errors(I don't even know what the problem exactly is). Can anyone help?

Thanks for reading this post. Any comment will be really appreciated.

[Jocelyn Fréchot]

On 15/06/2013 06:13, yixin li wrote:

> I use Clozure CL from lispbox and my OS is windows 7. I download AllegroServe from https://github.com/franzinc/aserve .

I guess the answer is written on that page:

“Platforms

AllegroServe works on all versions of Allegro Common Lisp since 6.0.”

And from chapter 26 of the PCL:

“If you're not using Allegro, you can use PortableAllegroServe,
a friendly fork of the AllegroServe code base, which includes
an Allegro compatibility layer that allows PortableAllegroServe
to run on most Common Lisps.”


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Jocelyn Fréchot

[yixin li]

In fact I downloaded PortableAllegroServe and it didn't work either. The project seems to be inact since 2004, so version may not be the problem in this case.

I think there are two ways now. I can use linux(and maybe sbcl) or I can learn and use another lisp web server to finish the web application in the book PCL. Right now I will try the latter.

Still, thank you for your comment!