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How to compile GNU Common Lisp 2.6.12 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8

Sunday, December 27th, 2015
14:39:57 GMT

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I had a tough time compiling GNU Common Lisp 2.6.12 from scratch in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 version 004.

But, I finally managed to do it. Here's how:

GNU Common Lisp can do things with Tcl/Tk, but only if you have Tcl/Tk installed.
As far as I know, Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 doesn't include Tcl/Tk by default. So, if you want Tcl/Tk, you can download their source code here:

https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/download.html
I downloaded version 8.6.4 of both Tcl and Tk.
Both Tcl and Tk were nice and easy to compile. I don't know if you have to compile and install them in a particular order, but I think I compiled and installed Tcl first.
All I had to do was unzip each source code tarball, open the source code folder, open a terminal window, and put in these three commands:

./configure make make install

(Though I actually used the command "new2dir make install" (without quotes) because I wanted to make .pet and .sfs files.)
GNU Common Lisp itself was far more troublesome to compile. You can download its source code here:

http://gnu.mirror.iweb.com/gcl/gcl-2.6.12.tar.gz
Unzip the source code tarball. And if you want to make a .pet or .sfs file of make .pet and .sfs files, rename the gcl folder to "gcl-2.6.12" (or whichever version you're trying to compile).
Next, open your gcl source code folder, then open the "h" folder. Then, open the "make-init.h" file in a text editor.
Above the line which says "#include <signal.h>" (without quotes), add this line:

#include <sys/ucontext.h>

(Huge thanks to the author of this post for the solution, because without that post I would have had absolutely no clue at all what to do.)
The above fix makes it so the compilation won't be stopped by these errors:

echo '}' >> new_init.c gcc -c -Wall -fsigned-char -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -pipe -I/root/gcl/o -I../h -I../gcl-tk new_init.c -o new_init.o new_init.c: In function 'NewInit': new_init.c:689: error: 'ucontext_t' undeclared (first use in this function) new_init.c:689: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once new_init.c:689: error: for each function it appears in.) new_init.c:689: error: expected ';' before 'v' new_init.c:689: error: 'v' undeclared (first use in this function) new_init.c:689: error: expected ';' before 'v' At top level: cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-unused-but-set-variable" make[1]: *** [new_init.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gcl/o' make: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2 rm h/mcompdefs.h #
Go back to the gcl source code folder, open a terminal, and type these three lines:

./configure --enable-tkconfig=/usr/local/lib/ --enable-tclconfig=/usr/local/lib/ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
make
After the build is finished - if you want to make a .pet and/or .sfs file, type this:

new2dir make install

Or, if you'd rather just install it without building a .pet or .sfs file, type this:

make install
Just one last nuisance to deal with. The file /bin/gcl has to be moved or renamed, because otherwise, your system might mistakenly try to run that instead of the correct gcl file at: /usr/local/bin/gcl

After all those steps, it should be possible to run GNU Common Lisp simply by typing "gcl" (without quotes).

If you have Tcl/Tk, here's how you can try them out with GNU Common Lisp.

Go to the gcl source code folder, open a terminal prompt, and type:

gcl

Then, at the GCL prompt, put in these commands:

(si::tkconnect)
(load "gcl-tk/demos/widget.lisp")

That last command will fail if your current working directory isn't the gcl source code folder.

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