[Openmcl-devel] Cocoa ide on windows

[R. Matthew Emerson]

> On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Bharath kumar <bshetty at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is cocoa-ide working with cocotron on windows now? 
> 
> 1) I am running ccl 1.10
> C:\ccl>wx86cl.exe
> Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.10  (WindowsX8632)!
> 
> 2) rebuilt the image succcessfully thus( on 32 bit version):
>   (ccl::rebuild-ccl :clean t)
> 
> 3) restarted wx86cl.exe and typed the following:
>   (ccl::rebuild-ccl :clean t)
> 4) get the following response
>> Error: Foreign variable "kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber" not found
>> While executing: %LOAD-VAR, in process listener(1).
>> Type :POP to abort, :R for a list of available restarts.
>> Type :? for other options.
> 
> Running the same commands on the 64 bit version still returns the original 
> error message(in this mail trail):
>> Error: Unknown foreign type: :OBJC_OBJECT
>> While executing: %PARSE-FOREIGN-TYPE, in process listener(1).
>> Type :POP to abort, :R for a list of available restarts.
>> Type :? for other options.

We haven't worked to keep the IDE running with Cocotron and Windows.  It might not be too hard to make it work again, but I think we've used things (such as view-based NSTableViews) in the IDE that Cocotron doesn't implement.

The bundled Cocotron DLL files are 32-bit only.  I'm not sure if Cocotron is even available in 64-bit.

If you just want to see the IDE on Windows, I think you should be able to check a 1.8 (or 1.7 or whatever) release of CCL and run that.