[gambit-list] null device on windows

Mikael mikael.rcv at gmail.com
Sat Apr 13 20:17:17 EDT 2013


2013/4/14 Ralph Moritz <ralph.moeritz at outlook.com>

> **
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:41:17 +0200, Mikael <mikael.rcv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Re BH, you may be interested in checking out the nonsyntactic tower
> version at https://github.com/pereckerdal/blackhole/tree/legacy as that
> one is most tested and tried currently.
>
> You find a current version of this nicely bundled on
> http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/wiki/index.php/Dumping_Grounds#Module_systems under
> the download link
> http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/wiki/images/6/64/2012-11-28-bh-non-syntactictower%2Bbundled-libs.tar.gz.
>
> For installation please refer to the mailing list post of 2012-11-29.
>
> Further updates are coming to Black Hole, at a currently unspecified date.
>
> I would guess it works great on Windows either directly or with some
> trivla tweak, feel free to let the list know.
>
>
> Thanks for this info. I downloaded the bundled "non syntactic tower"
> version you linked to & followed the instructions in your ML post.
> Unfortunately I get the following error when launching `bsc'
>
> *** ERROR IN ##u8vector->object -- deserialization error
>

The only u8vector<->object serialization done is of ns.dat in Black Hole's
home directory. I believed this was not included there.

Please remove this file and try again - it'll make a new one.

If this was the thing, my fault.


> A quick grep found the offending code in module.scm, function
> `read-ns-table'. Not sure how to go about fixing that.
>
> Now, did this solve your problem, or do you by some reason want to proceed
> with digging into the (compile-file-to-target "/dev/null" ... issue with
> syntactictower BH?
>
>
> Well, as described above I couldn't get the "non syntactic tower" version
> to work, so unless there's a quick fix for the issue I'd be tempted to just
> fix Gambit to treat an argument of `NUL' to `compile-file-to-target' as a
> special case & not prepend the CWD. Can you provide help with either issue?
>
> Regards,
> Ralph
>
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