Re: Installation

2025-01-10 Thread Alexander Burger
Hello Henrique, > Recently, I tried to build PicoLisp from source (master branch at github). > I've followed the instructions at INSTALL, but GNU Make complains that it > can't find "../bin/picolisp" (from "src" directory). Am I supposed to > download an executable and insert it there in order to

Re: Installation and update

2020-03-20 Thread cilz
Hi Mike, All, Thanks for these tips. I was not aware of: pil @lib/test.l + to check the installation. Here, I'm using Manjaro Linux and Picolisp can be installed from the Aur repo with: yay -S picolisp however it installs version (18-9-1) which is not up to date! Install from source works

Re: Installation and update

2020-01-08 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
On NixOS, picolisp has been available out of the box on 32 and 64 bit intel and arm: $ nix-shell -p picolisp -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe

Re: Installation and update

2020-01-08 Thread Priyadarshan
Thank you for that detailed guideline, very helpful to understand more. For now I am using PiCoLisp on Debian Unstable via WSL 1 (Windows 10), but I will need to use it on an illumos (omniOS) server sooner or later. Is this list a good place to ask for question about the very nice code repository

Re: Installation and update

2020-01-08 Thread O.Hamann
Hi Mike, I like that, looks straight forward. (after following it for the ubuntu track, one little suggestion: '* ready to compile pil64' fits perfectly into the ascii view of the .md file, but in the html view I overlooked it several times because it's much less attracting attention) I've neve

Re: Installation / Load Paths

2017-09-03 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Christopher, Andreas, > > I could install all my supporting files in @lib/ in the picolisp > > installation directory. > That is one way to do it. Alex usually does it this way afaik. I would not store application-specific stuff under @lib/, but it is true that on production servers I usually

RE: Installation / Load Paths

2017-09-03 Thread andreas
Hi Christopher > I could install all my supporting files in @lib/ in the picolisp installation > directory. That is one way to do it. Alex usually does it this way afaik. You could also create your own custom directory within the picolisp directory and then refer to it with "@myDirectory/my-lib

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-17 Thread Alexis
On 2015-02-17T17:12:54+1100, Alexander Burger said: AB> as I mentioned in my previous mail, is Thorsten currently AB> offline. He asked me to post this for him A> "i'll try to find some time to: A> * examine the diffs between the distribution version and the A> GitHub version; T

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-17 Thread Henrik Sarvell
To complicate things I've attached my two local versions of picolisp.el and inferior-picolisp.el When I diff them I see quite substantial differences. Unfortunately I have no idea why I made those changes as I didn't take any notes and it was several years ago. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:12 AM,

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-16 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi list, as I mentioned in my previous mail, is Thorsten currently offline. He asked me to post this for him: - Hi Alexis, this is Thorsten, the current maintainer (but ot original author) of the Emacs stuff. "i'll try to find some time to: * examine

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-15 Thread Alexis
On 2015-02-15T02:56:38+1100, Alexander Burger said: AB> Unfortunately, Thorsten (the original maintainer) is currently AB> offline. AB> I can't do anything in 'picolisp.el', as I'm ignorant of emacs, AB> but I can gladly take changes (if they are thoughtfully reviewed AB> and agreed upon by

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-14 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Alexis, > >Hi Alexis, if I google "picolisp emacs" I see the following URL as > >the #1 result: https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-mode > > > >That is what I use when I code PL in Emacs, works great! > > Excellent. :-) However, that code hasn't been updated for over 2 > years, and since i've had

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-14 Thread Alexis
On 2015-02-14T00:39:55+1100, Lawrence Bottorff said: LB> Is this different from the distribution version? Yes. The distribution version includes `picolisp-wiki-mode.el`, which the GitHub version doesn't, and a running a diff on `picolisp.el` and `inferior-picolisp.el` shows various differenc

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-13 Thread Alexis
Henrik Sarvell writes: Hi Alexis, if I google "picolisp emacs" I see the following URL as the #1 result: https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-mode That is what I use when I code PL in Emacs, works great! Excellent. :-) However, that code hasn't been updated for over 2 years, and since i've had

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-13 Thread Henrik Sarvell
Hi Lawrence, I have no idea, I have never installed the dist version. I usually install like at the bottom of this article: http://picolisp.com/wiki/?Websockets On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > Is this different from the distribution version? BTW, the dist version > d

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-13 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Is this different from the distribution version? BTW, the dist version doesn't seem to have a customize - mode variable for the picolisp exe or for pil. Again, the default seems to be /usr/bin/pil . How do I override this?

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-13 Thread Henrik Sarvell
Hi Alexis, if I google "picolisp emacs" I see the following URL as the #1 result: https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-mode That is what I use when I code PL in Emacs, works great! I've added a few keywords to the mode and the doc jumping in my init.el, could post both changes here if anyone is intere

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Alexis
andr...@itship.ch writes: @Alexis: Just have a look into lib/el/ in your picolisp installation. i'm on Debian Wheezy(+updates), and having installed the available PicoLisp package (3.1.0.7-1), couldn't see any .el files within the PicoLisp directory (/usr/share/picolisp/), which doesn't hav

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread andreas
The drop-down menu has tools to do indentation, commenting in and out, and to run-picolisp.When you have  run-picolisp started (thats an emacs buffer with pil repl), there are several additional options in the dropdown to evaluate the picolisp code where the cursor is in the editor buffer, or to ru

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Okay, now it's working! Thanks for all your efforts! As far as the drop-down menu, I can't recall. But it was present with the distribution package, in .../lib/el if I'm not mistaken. It's just that now when I run M-x picolisp-mode . . . nothing seems to have happened. For opening a *.l file, I ge

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: Okay, this is what I get with the latest melpa picolisp-mode: emacs-snapshot: /usr/bin/pil: No such file or directory Process picolisp-repl exited abnormally with code 127 This is /after/ you've set the value of `picoliso-pil-executable` appropriately? Alexis.

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: BTW, I don't see a drop-down menu when I start picolisp-mode. The old version (bundled with the picolisp download had one. Just thought I'd mention it. . . . Well, what i've written isn't any sort of 'update' of the version you mention; i wrote it from scratch, as

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Okay, this is what I get with the latest melpa picolisp-mode: emacs-snapshot: /usr/bin/pil: No such file or directory Process picolisp-repl exited abnormally with code 127 > >

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
BTW, I don't see a drop-down menu when I start picolisp-mode. The old version (bundled with the picolisp download had one. Just thought I'd mention it. . . . On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > Forward-step (Fortschritt) must be, so said Wallenski. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 201

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Forward-step (Fortschritt) must be, so said Wallenski. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Alexis wrote: > > Alexis writes: > > Lawrence Bottorff writes: >> > > . . I'm sure if I install a ubuntu-debian package version of picolisp >>> (3.1.7) picolisp-repl will see that, i.e., it's hardwired s

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Alexis
Alexis writes: Lawrence Bottorff writes: . . I'm sure if I install a ubuntu-debian package version of picolisp (3.1.7) picolisp-repl will see that, i.e., it's hardwired somewhere to look for a /usr/bin/ executable (pil or picolisp). Not quite: the problem turns out to be that i've fa

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: . . I'm sure if I install a ubuntu-debian package version of picolisp (3.1.7) picolisp-repl will see that, i.e., it's hardwired somewhere to look for a /usr/bin/ executable (pil or picolisp). Not quite: the problem turns out to be that i've failed to make use of

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: No matter what I do, M-x picolisp-repl gives: Searching for program: no such file or directory, pil I've set customize group thus: .. '(picolisp-picolisp-executable "/home/lawrence/opt/picoLisp/bin/picolisp") '(picolisp-pil-executable "/home/lawrence/opt/picoLis

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
. . I'm sure if I install a ubuntu-debian package version of picolisp (3.1.7) picolisp-repl will see that, i.e., it's hardwired somewhere to look for a /usr/bin/ executable (pil or picolisp). On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > No matter what I do, M-x picolisp-repl giv

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
No matter what I do, M-x picolisp-repl gives: Searching for program: no such file or directory, pil I've set customize group thus: .. '(picolisp-picolisp-executable "/home/lawrence/opt/picoLisp/bin/picolisp") '(picolisp-pil-executable "/home/lawrence/opt/picoLisp/pil") in a fresh install of th

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: New install. Put picoLisp in ~/opt/picoLisp/ Then I created an alias for the pil: alias pil='~/opt/picoLisp/pil +' This works fine from shell; starts up REPL. However emacs can't start the REPL (run-picolisp): Searching for program: no such file or directory, pil

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Lawrence, > alias pil='~/opt/picoLisp/pil +' > > This works fine from shell; starts up REPL However emacs can't > start the REPL (run-picolisp): > > Searching for program: no such file or directory, pil > > What can I do to make emacs see ~/opt/picoLisp/pil  ? have you tried alias pil=~/op

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-10 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
n/picolisp ${0%/*}/lib.l @ext.l > @lib/misc.l @lib/btree.l @lib/db.l @lib/pilog.l "$@" > > > -Original Message- > > From: picolisp@software-lab.de [mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de] On > Behalf > > Of Alexander Burger > > Sent: Saturday, February 07,

RE: Installation issues

2015-02-09 Thread Loyall, David
l #!/bin/sh BROWSER=x-www-browser exec ${0%/*}/bin/picolisp ${0%/*}/lib.l @ext.l @lib/misc.l @lib/btree.l @lib/db.l @lib/pilog.l "$@" > -Original Message- > From: picolisp@software-lab.de [mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de] On Behalf > Of Alexander Burger > Sent: Satu

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-06 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Lawrence, > I've gotten the latest picolisp, 3.1.9, and am trying to install locally. OK > Following the instructions for 64-bit on my linux, I've built the > executable picolisp all right. But the bin directory's pil seems to pick up > the previous version I installed before from Ubuntu: I

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-06 Thread Alexander Burger
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 05:42:43PM -0500, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > Why does the pil in .../bin/ behave this way? I'd like both, but I guess I > could uninstall one of them. . . No, keeping both is fine. I do the same. You can have as many installations on the system as you like. You simply sele

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-21 Thread Kyle Vandale
Alex, I think the problem is more with the fact that I am using a Mac and Xcode (not necessarily typical of Unix development tools) rather than Pico Lisp itself. This is compounded by my being stuck in the past so to speak with a Power PC chip and OS X 10.4. No worries, when I have the

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-20 Thread Alexander Burger
Hello Kyle, > So there are some things I must adjust; but I decided in the meantime to > take Jon Kleiser's advice and install an earlier version - > picoLisp-2.3.0. Success!!! Now I get to investigate pico Lisp while I > work on the above. This is strange. I'd be very much interested why p

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-20 Thread Kyle Vandale
Hello all, I wanted to give an update and let everyone know I have had some success: Alex was correct I did not have gcc loaded. Originally I had Xcode on this machine and forgot I had done an OS X reinstall. (I am embarrassed about that. My background is embedded programming with a

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-15 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Boh Yap, > mac. The 1st thing to do is to have the Developer CD that came with > the Mac installed. All the compilers and build tools are in there. In > ... Thanks for the info! > have tried the 64bit picolisp, but won't compile on my 10.5.7. Yep, this does not work yet. The problem is to f

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Boh Yap
hi all, I have compile picolisp 2.3.x (at least 2.3.3 or later..) on a PPC mac. The 1st thing to do is to have the Developer CD that came with the Mac installed. All the compilers and build tools are in there. In your case, it can't find gcc, so that might be the problem. If you bought yr Mac earl

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Kyle Vandale
Hello Alex, I appreciate the help. Yes, I think I am going to need to do some tweaking. I am about to leave on a two day trip, but I am anxious to get back and start in on it. The good news is it looks like there have been a lot of responses. Thank you everyone. Best regards, Kyle O

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread rand
Kyle, The GCC compiler is contained in a package called "xcode". Cheers, - Rand = -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=unsubscribe

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Randall, > in.  I don't think that picolisp will run on the PowerPC without some = > work and I think no one has tried it I think it used to run without problems, when Rick Hanson sent me the 'make' parameters back in 2006. Only the 64-bit version (in assembly) will not run, as an explici

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi, The latest Pico Lisp I have built on my PowerPC Mac (w/10.4.11), seems to be picoLisp-2.3.0. /Jon > Hello, > > I am having a bit of a problem installing picolisp on a PowerPC Mac > running OS X 10.411. Here is the command line output after running > the make command. > > PowerBook-12in:~/pi

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread rand
Hi All, I sent a detailed message this morning to the list, but apparently from an = email address that I was not subscribed and the list server tossed it (corr= ect so).  I'll resend it tonight when I have access to my computer aga= in.  I don't think that picolisp will run on the PowerPC withou

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Henrik Sarvell
PowerPc, is that the old Motorola CPU architecture? If so then no, the one I copied to was definitely an Intel machine. >>Ubuntu current version<< Do you mean 9.04 by that? /Henrik On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:43:31AM +0200, Henrik Sarv

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Alexander Burger
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:43:31AM +0200, Henrik Sarvell wrote: > executable that I had compiled in Ubuntu Feisty (observe no later > versions of Ubuntu will work as the GCC is broken on them) to a Mac I didn't watch the gcc-situation for a while, but I compiled PicoLisp repeatedly on current vers

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Alexander Burger
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:43:31AM +0200, Henrik Sarvell wrote: > ... just simply copied the picolisp executable that I had compiled in > Ubuntu Feisty ... to a Mac and it simply ran it without any problems. But Kyle has a PowerPC Mac. Does it emulate x86 instructions? -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:pico

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Henrik Sarvell
For what it's worth I think I once just simply copied the picolisp executable that I had compiled in Ubuntu Feisty (observe no later versions of Ubuntu will work as the GCC is broken on them) to a Mac and it simply ran it without any problems. /Henrik On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alexander

Re: Installation on PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.411

2009-09-14 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Kyle, welcome to the mailing list! > I am having a bit of a problem installing picolisp on a PowerPC Mac > running OS X 10.411. Here is the command line output after running the > make command. I'm afraid I'm not of much help, as I don't have a Mac myself. I was hoping that some of the Ma