= Installing CLX via ASDF =

'''CLX''' seems to work when installed via [http://www.cliki.net/asdf ASDF] as of 2006-10-16, but not a lot of software has been tested with it. This version requires that you be running '''X11''' (i.e., it is not a magical CLX->Cocoa bridge), but it will allow programs like [http://common-lisp.net/project/gsharp/ GSharp] to run.  This may not work completely[[FootNote(Sadly loading the {{{demos:clx-demos.lisp}}} and then invoking {{{(demos::do-all-demos)}}} generates an error: {{{Unbound variable: ARCH::MISC-DATA-OFFSET [Condition of type UNBOUND-VARIABLE].}}})]].

Once you have '''ASDF''' working (see [HintsForAsdfAndOpenmcl the OpenMCL Hints]) then you can do:
{{{
      (asdf-install:install 'clx) 
}}}

If this doesn't work, you could still try {{{(asdf-install:install "http://clozure.com/openmcl/ftp/CLX/clx-030512.tar.gz")}}}, but this should no longer be necessary.

Since there is no signature file on that you will need to approve installing it without the signature check.

Once installed, you can get a glorious taste of the early 90's with some cool X11 demo applications[[FootNote(See also the Fink [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/clx-openmcl.info?view=markup openmcl-clx] port info; and it's dependency [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages/openmcl.info?view=markup openmcl] for other ideas - I've not tried those.)]]:

{{{
         ? (require 'clx)
         CLX
         NIL
         ? (load "menu")
         #P"/opt/local/share/asdf-install/site/clx_0.7.3/demo/menu.dfsl"
         ? (xlib::just-say-lisp)
         NIL
}}}      

Unfortunately, I got socket errors on most of the other examples. Most likely this is not a CLX problem, but rather a user issue.

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