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12:28:17 mokrates hi, I tried to get EQL5 to run, to try to build some android-stuff with lisp ... but I cannot get swank to load. documentation says I should eql5 eql-start-swank.lisp, but that tries to load a swank-loader.lisp which doesn't exist and fails.

12:28:55 mokrates Can anybody here help me with that?

15:07:23 pls153 mokrates: did you copy 'eql5-start-swank.lisp' to your Slime directory (for convenience installed in '~/slime'), as mentioned in the eql5 docu?

15:08:27 mokrates i did

15:10:51 mokrates but that doesn't change the fact that there is a non-existent file referenced in there

15:12:58 pls153 so, if you run eql5 ~/slime/eql-start-swank, the Swank server should start and you should be able to connect from Emacs through M-x slime-connect

15:13:22 pls153 for me it runs fine with Slime 2.24

15:18:13 pls153 do you have any special setup in your environment? I'm running it on a linux laptop (not a VM)

15:25:51 mokrates no. ubuntu laptop, no specialties

15:26:11 mokrates I get

15:26:13 mokrates mmolle@monochrom:~$ eql5 ~/slime/eql-start-swank

15:26:13 mokrates EQL5 20.7.1 (ECL 20.4.24, Qt 5.13.2)

15:26:15 mokrates ;;; Loading #P"/home/mmolle/slime/eql-start-swank.lisp"

15:26:19 mokrates

15:26:23 mokrates Condition of type: FILE-ERROR

15:26:27 mokrates Filesystem error with pathname #P"/home/mmolle/slime/swank-loader.lisp".

15:26:31 mokrates

15:27:16 mokrates I got EQL from the gitlab repo and it doesn't contain this file.

15:32:07 mokrates this one: https://gitlab.com/eql/EQL5/-/tree/master/slime

15:33:50 pls153 the file is part of the Slime tarball, see: https://github.com/slime/slime/archive/v2.25.tar.gz

15:34:36 mokrates ah, ok, that probably helps

15:34:42 pls153 just install it in you home dir and rename it 'slime' (for convenience)

15:35:28 pls153 eql5 is a little complicated to setup, I admit it

15:35:31 mokrates ... it is not part of the ubuntu slime-deb

15:35:49 mokrates yeah, a "little"

15:36:12 mokrates thank you very much!

15:37:54 pls153 it's good advice to install Common Lisp sources etc. from original sources, the distros are generally a little behind

15:40:49 mokrates the qt-installer refused to extract without my email-address!

15:41:00 mokrates ok, seems to run

15:41:13 mokrates yeah, nice!

15:46:32 pls153 Qt5 is LGPL (which is good enough even for commercial use), so I generally pardon them for asking an email before installing...