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Forum => newLISP in the real world => Topic started by: GDavidModica on November 04, 2011, 11:22:35 AM

Title: Linking newLISP source and executable question?
Post by: GDavidModica on November 04, 2011, 11:22:35 AM
Hi all,



I am new to newLisp and working through the manual.  The example says:
Quote(1) Put the following files into the same directory: (a) a copy of the newLISP executable; (b) newlisp (or newlisp.exe on Win32); (c) link.lsp; and (d) the program to link with (uppercase.lsp in this example).

On Linux I don't understand the distinction between a) and b).   Assuming they are the same and using this directory
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$ ls Lisp/newLispCode
 link.lsp  newlisp  uppercase.lsp

I get the following results:
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$ newlisp link.lsp
Hi
newLISP v.10.3.3 64-bit on Linux IPv4/6 UTF-8, execute 'newlisp -h' for more info.

> (link "newlisp" "uppercase" "uppercase.lsp")
original newlisp executable:newlisp
new executable:uppercase
source:uppercase.lsp
true
> (exit)
$ chmod 775 uppercase
$ ./uppercase "convert me to uppercase"
newLISP v.10.3.3 64-bit on Linux IPv4/6 UTF-8, execute 'newlisp -h' for more info.

> (last-error)
nil
>
The executable uppercase is 76 bytes larger than newlisp but behaves as if nothing was linked in.



Can anyone point out what I am missing?
Title: Re: Linking newLISP source and executable question?
Post by: Lutz on November 04, 2011, 01:36:59 PM
Sorry for the confusion. In the manual it should say (now corrected online):


QuotePut the following files into the same current directory: (a) a copy of the newLISP executable, either newlisp or newlisp.exe on Win32; (b) link.lsp; and (c) the program to link with (uppercase.lsp in this example).


Make sure all three files are either in the current directory, or specify full path-names for all components.



Also, I just found out, the link feature only works with 32-bit versions of newLISP (I will try to fix this for the next version). You are running 64-bit. Perhaps you can compile for 32-bit using the makefile_linux or makefile_linux_utf8 makefile to make for 32-bit:


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make -f makefile_linux_utf8
Title: Re: Linking newLISP source and executable question?
Post by: GDavidModica on November 04, 2011, 02:20:34 PM
Thanks Lutz,



It is nice to know I'm not crazy.  I will watch for the 64 bit fix - no hurry.
Title: Re: Linking newLISP source and executable question?
Post by: Lutz on November 04, 2011, 04:08:23 PM
The link.lsp problem for 64-bit versions is fixed here:



http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/development/inprogress/



An official development version will be released coming week.
Title: Re: Linking newLISP source and executable question?
Post by: GDavidModica on November 05, 2011, 08:31:04 AM
It works!  Thank you.
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