Using LispWorks with SLIME on Windows
I was able to get SLIME to work with both CLISP and ACL under Win2000 (see my blog entries for the last few days at http://home.comcast.net/~bc19191/blog/index.html). I am now trying to get SLIME (http://www.cliki.net/SLIME) working with the LispWorks free Personal edition on MS Windows. There is support in SLIME for LispWorks on Linux; however, the commands that are used to start up a socket communication on LW under Linux don't exist on the MS Windows version of LW. The specific functions that are missing are: SYSTEM:SET-SIGNAL-HANDLER SYSTEM::GETPID According to the LW documentation, "set-signal-handler" is "applicable only on UNIX/Linux/Mac OS". I also had a look at the symbols in the system package in LW and "getpid" is not there either. There are ~65 different LW functions/macros used in the Linux version of SLIME for LW. I suspect that most of these will be consistent on both the Win32 and Linux versions of LW. However, is there some Xanalys "master list" that identifies which functions/macros are platform specific? Has anyone been using LW with SLIME on Windows and worked out what the equivalent functions are? Alternatively, any ideas for work-arounds (other than using UNIX/Linux/MacOS ;-) of course)? Thanks, Bill Clementson