[Openmcl-devel] (getenv "TEMP") value in POSIX format puzzle on Windows

[Mirko Vukovic]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 4:44 PM Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To start with, I am pretty sure the problem is on my side, not on ccl's
>

I get the same problem (value of the TEMP variable) with sbcl installed via
Roswell on MSYS2. So this is not a CCL problem. I will pursue this problem
on other forums that are of more general nature (Reddit or comp.lang.lisp)


> I run CCL 1.12 on a corporate Windows machine. I installed it via Roswell,
> which I installed in the MSYS2 environment (from its MinGW64 shell). When
> running it in Emacs/Slime, the value returned by (ccl:getenv "TEMP") causes
> me a problem.
>
> Here are the values of TEMP under several scenarios:
>
>    1. Windows PowerShell: C:\Users\977315\AppData\Local\Temp
>    2. MSYS2's MinGW64 shell: TEMP evaluates to "/tmp", which points to
>    C:/msys64-a/tmp (as translated by cygpath -m)
>    3. In CCL launched by ros run, I get C:\\msys64-a\\tmp (agrees with #2)
>    4. In Emacs (that came with MSYS2, and launched from the MinGW64
>    shell), I get "C:\Users\977315\AppData\Local\Temp" (agrees with #1)
>    5. In CCL launched via Emacs & Slime (that uses ros run), I get (ccl:getenv
>    "TEMP")=>"/c/Users/977315/AppData/Local/Temp" (value of #1 but using
>    MSYS2's translation to Posix)
>
> This issue causes me a problem when I try to install a library via
> quicklisp in Emacs/Slime. This uses a bit of UIOP machinery to get a
> temporary directory. Near the bottom of that stack, a call to ccl:getenv returns
> the "/c/Users/..." value, that ccl's create-directory chokes on.
>
> I guess the alternative questions are:
>
>    - Is there a switch or some other way of getting ccl:getenv to return
>    a Windows native pathname? ( did not find anything in the documentation)
>    - Is there a recommended installation procedure for ccl on Windows
>    that would eliminate this problem?
>    - Is the Roswell binary the cause of the problem? Should I install the
>    binary from the github page
>    - Something else?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mirko
>
>
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