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13:29:35 yottabyte hello, still trying to figure out how to load the system I've defined with asdf:defsystem. I have 2 lisp files along with my asd file. I have the asd file opened in emacs and I started slime. what do I do now to load the system so I can start executing the functions and what not that I've defined?

13:29:59 paulapatience yottabyte: (asdf:load-system "your-system-name")

13:30:09 paulapatience Or you might be able to press comma (,) in slime and select 'load system'

13:30:28 paulapatience Is your system in a place ASDF can find it?

13:32:39 yottabyte I think so because after doing asdf:load-system, it gave me a compilation error saying one of my packages (in the file) does not exist... but it does

13:33:16 beach yottabyte: Is your code small enough to paste?

13:33:17 paulapatience Can you paste your .asd file?

13:33:43 paulapatience (on plaster.tymoon.eu, for example)

13:35:56 yottabyte yeah, one second

13:37:23 yottabyte https://plaster.tymoon.eu/view/4374#4374

13:38:05 yottabyte I restarted my emacs, opened the asd file, did (asdf:load-system "test-system") in my slime repl and it says "Evaluation aborted on Component "test-system" not found."

13:38:26 yottabyte (I started slime after I opened the asd file)

13:38:27 paulapatience So it's not finding your asd file

13:38:31 paulapatience Where is your asd file located?

13:38:45 yottabyte just in the root directory, along side my 2 lisp files

13:38:52 paulapatience Where is your root directory?

13:39:06 paulapatience ASDF can find stuff in $HOME/.local/share/common-lisp/source/

13:39:08 paulapatience And some other places

13:39:26 _death if you're using quicklisp, you can create a symbolic link to your asd file in ~/quicklisp/local-projects

13:39:30 yottabyte I'm on windows so it's just in a folder in my documents

13:40:02 paulapatience Ah, I'm not sure where it looks for them on Windows

13:40:17 _death so you can have your projects in the quicklisp local-projects directory and asdf will find them

13:41:05 yottabyte _death: that's what you were saying yesterday, then I can just (ql:quickload "test-system")?

13:41:34 paulapatience If it is in local-projects, you can also do asdf:load-system

13:42:09 yottabyte I see, let me try to create this symbolic link in windows

13:42:36 yottabyte is that general practice? people clone a repo, create a symbolic link in local-projects, and then quickload it, start hacking?

13:42:58 yottabyte or do they just work out of the local-projects directory, as in they clone the repo there to begin with, to keep things simple?

13:43:41 _death yottabyte: if it is your own project or a project you cloned yourself, yes, it could be in local-projects.. the projects that quicklisp downloads it puts in another directory

13:44:04 beach yottabyte: Notice that you said "it gave me a compilation error saying one of my packages (in the file) does not exist... but it does", but this error has nothing to do with packages.

13:53:24 yottabyte yeah idk what happened there, that's why I restarted emacs

13:53:29 yottabyte I did C-c C-k my asd file

13:53:32 yottabyte I guess I shouldn't have