cygwin64 has no LISP package

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 08:09:00 GMT 2014


On 12/28/2014 6:45 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 12/27/2014 11:38 PM, Phil _ wrote:
>> cygwin64 has no package with any version of LISP. I install cygwin
>> largely to use LISP, and have to keep both cygwin32 and cygwin64
>> installations just for clisp, which is in cygwin32.
>>
>> Some of the available packages use LISP, so there must be a LISP in
>> there somewhere. Is there a way to use that hidden lisp interpreter,
>> or to install the 32-bit clisp package in cygwin64?
>
> Without knowing what packages you're referring to, it's hard to be
> more specific but I believe that you'll find the packages that use
> LISP are doing so only through scripts that aren't crucial to the
> package operation.  They are helper scripts, Emacs utilities, etc.
> There is, of course, no reason that these LISP scripts can't be run
> using the 32-bit version of LISP, as you've recognized, so this is
> your best recourse at the moment if you prefer to wait for a 64-bit
> version to be provided as part of distribution.  Otherwise, you can
> always build a version for yourself while you wait for the official
> version.

I presume he is referring to clisp.
Considering the deep level of patches that Reini did on 32bit version,
I am not surprised he never had time to build a 64 bit version,
specially the gdi interface

Regards
MArco



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