[Openmcl-devel] Using cocoa

Alexander Repenning ralex at cs.colorado.edu
Fri Nov 27 21:15:58 PST 2009


On Windows the CCL cocoa bridge does require Cocotron because there is no Cocoa API native to Windows. This is work in progress...

Alex




On Nov 27, 2009, at 6:49 PM, Greg Bennett wrote:

> Hullo from Greg Bennett who is trying to follow
> htp://trac.clozure.com/ccl/wiki/CocoaBridge
> after installing clozure under Windows (Vista).
> I used svn (after installing it too) and my box churned away for
> quite a while building things; stopped and seemed happy. My previous, and
> current lisp system, is ACL from Franz.
> 
> At least, I thought I had installed clozure, but it seems that I may be 
> missing
> at least one piece.
> 
> In the ccl directory I can execute wx86cl.exe and find a listener.
> I have made no use of the wx86cl.image file, no knowing whether
> it should be an argument to wx86cl, for example, or whether
> it is automatically loaded by that file.
> 
> I can run make-simple-ms-window, both in the listener's thread
> and in its own. Thus, I thought to learn how to do a bit more than
> make an empty window - hence the CocoaBridge page.
> 
> When I try to execute (require "COCOA") I am told
> Error:  File ccl:cocotron;Foundation'.1'.0'.dll" does not exist.
> 
> Perhaps I did not manage to create all of clozure as I had thought;
> perhaps I simply did not create enough of it to allow cocoa code to run.
> 
> Any and all assistance appreciated. In particular, pointers about how to
> teach myself about (probably) simple things would be most useful.
> 
> Cheers /GregB
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Prof. Alexander Repenning

University of Colorado
Computer Science Department
Boulder, CO 80309-430

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