Getting Swank-server working in a Delivered Lispworks (Win32) EXE
I am on Win32. . . Lispworks 6 (have 5.1 handy still though) I'm not asking about Emacs->LW via Slime. And I have Emacs->Swank server working when the Lisp environment is running in the IDE, so the Emacs configuration and connectivity is good. However, the IDE can call Compile-file. . . . a delivered .EXE cannot. Perhaps my configuration for swank and swank-server is incorrect; but when swank-server takes an inbound connection it attempts to compile-file a few of its contribs to a secondary location (some user subdirectory). So the delivered EXE has Swank compiled into it; but it tries to late-compile things when you try to connect (in Slime-connect you see the callstacks of these failed compilation attempts, i.e. connection works, swank works; but it gets held up on its contribs). My attempts to call into Swank to get it to compile/load these in advance cause the Delivery mechanism (run from the command line) to pop open an IDE that's just blank. I was wondering if anyone has a turn-key solution for this already. Knowing that it is possible at all would make it worth my digging for a solution. Knowing if it is impossible will prevent me from burning any more time on this. Thanks in advance, Matt