Re: IDE not starting up

On Aug 10, 2005, at 12:22 AM, Joel Reymont wrote:

> I have a simple .lispworks that looks like this:
>
> ;; ASDF
> (load "/Users/joelr/lisp/asdf/asdf")
> (push "/Users/joelr/lisp/systems/" asdf:*central-registry*)
>
> ;; Slime
> (load "~/lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp")
>
> (mp:initialize-multiprocessing)
>
> (swank::create-swank-server 4005 :spawn #'swank::simple-announce- 
> function t)
>
> Running the IDE drops me down into the terminal and does not start  
> the IDE itself.
>
> I think initializing multiprocessing interferes with Cocoa startup  
> but it's nice to have the bit for starting Slime from within Emacs.  
> The best way is probably to figure out the combination of features  
> present in IDE vs. saved image and skip Slime in IDE mode.
>
>

I have the following at the end of my .lispworks which seems to do  
the trick in both the IDE / Console cases:

(defun start-swank (&optional screen)
   (declare (ignore screen))
   (swank:create-server))

(define-action "Initialize LispWorks Tools" "Swank Startup" 'start- 
swank :after "Configuration restored")


Starting multiprocessing by hand can be very tricky under Mac OS X  
due to Cocoa's requirement that it run in the main thread...

-greg