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update on LispWorks on macOS Big Sur beta: you can run in console mode withut multi-processing

Hello everyone,

I reported a month or two ago a warning about installing macOS Big Sur beta because LispWorks would not run.

I was slightly inaccurate about that :-)

It is only multi-processing and the IDE that don't run on the Big Sur beta. Building a console version of LispWorks works fine (the 'build argument turns off multiprocessing).

So if you don't need multi-processing in your app and use Emacs + Slime for development, Big Sur is OK to install, and is a fun release for many reasons.

The following short script works for me. Create the file make-console.lisp and then run: lispworks -build make-console.lisp (note lispworks is aliased to '/Applications/LispWorks\ 7.1\ \(64-bit\)/LispWorks\ \(64-bit\).app/Contents/MacOS/lispworks-7-1-0-amd64-darwin' on my system):

;; LispWorks, to be run from command line (not multiprocessing):
;;
;; lispworks -build make-console.lisp

(in-package "CL-USER")

(load-all-patches)
(load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")
(save-image "/Users/markw/bin/lw" :console t :environment nil)
(quit)

Then, in my Emacs setup: (setq inferior-lisp-program "/Users/markw/bin/lw")

Best regards,
Mark

Mark Watson, author and consultant
www.markwatson.com

It is better to travel well than to arrive. - Buddha


Re: update on LispWorks on macOS Big Sur beta: you can run in console mode withut multi-processing

Hi, folks

Likewise, I have found the gtk2 version of the IDE is works fine on
macOS Big Sur.
However, it would be very difficult to configure gtk2 to fit nicely
with LispWorks....

If you want to give it a try, I recommend the fink version of gtk2.
http://www.finkproject.org/
fink cannot be built on macOS Big Sur, so I use a copy of fink built
on macOS mojave.
(Don't forget to set the fink's base directory to /opt/sw for macOS
10.15 and later)

2020年8月2日(日) 2:04 Mark Watson <markw@markwatson.com>:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I reported a month or two ago a warning about installing macOS Big Sur beta because LispWorks would not run.
>
> I was slightly inaccurate about that :-)
>
> It is only multi-processing and the IDE that don't run on the Big Sur beta. Building a console version of LispWorks works fine (the 'build argument turns off multiprocessing).
>
> So if you don't need multi-processing in your app and use Emacs + Slime for development, Big Sur is OK to install, and is a fun release for many reasons.
>
> The following short script works for me. Create the file make-console.lisp and then run: lispworks -build make-console.lisp (note lispworks is aliased to '/Applications/LispWorks\ 7.1\ \(64-bit\)/LispWorks\ \(64-bit\).app/Contents/MacOS/lispworks-7-1-0-amd64-darwin' on my system):
>
> ;; LispWorks, to be run from command line (not multiprocessing):
> ;;
> ;; lispworks -build make-console.lisp
>
> (in-package "CL-USER")
>
> (load-all-patches)
> (load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")
> (save-image "/Users/markw/bin/lw" :console t :environment nil)
> (quit)
>
> Then, in my Emacs setup: (setq inferior-lisp-program "/Users/markw/bin/lw")
>
> Best regards,
> Mark
>
> Mark Watson, author and consultant
> www.markwatson.com
>
> It is better to travel well than to arrive. - Buddha
>
>

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