This package contains Common Lisp bindings to GTK+ v2.0. It currently
-only works with CMUCL 19a, but ports to other CL implementations may
-be added later.
+only works with CMUCL 19a and SBCL. Ports to other CL implementations
+may be added later.
New versions
Build instructions
------------------
-1. When building for CMUCL, first obtain a matching binary and source
- tree (the only source file you will actually need is lisp.h and a
- couple of other header files). On ELF systems you may also have to
- rebuild lisp with -rdynamic added to OS_LINK_FLAGS.
+1. When building for SBCL (at least 0.8.19 or earlier) you first need
+ to add callback support, since SBCL does not yet has a native
+ callback facility. The following instructions are borrowed from the
+ Common Music installation guide:
+
+ 1. Download Thomas Burdick's Alien Function package¹ and restore it
+ to a directory on your machine.
+ 2. Compile the Alien Function package and save a new sbcl.core image:
+
+ $ cd sbcl-af
+ $ sbcl --load "system"
+ * (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die "/tmp/sbcl.core")
+ $ cd /usr/local/lib/sbcl
+ $ cp sbcl.core sbcl.core.orig
+ $ mv /tmp/sbcl.core .
+
+
+ ¹ http://pinhead.music.uiuc.edu/~hkt/sbcl-af-2004-10-22.tgz
2. Set up paths to reflect your system:
- - Add a logical-pathname-translation to clg in ~/.cmucl-init.lisp
- or some other startup file. Example:
+ - Add a logical-pathname-translation to the clg root directory in
+ ~/.cmucl-init.lisp, ~/.sbclrc or some other startup file. Example:
(setf
(logical-pathname-translations "clg")
'(("**;*.*.*" "/home/espen/src/clg/**/")))
- - Set the correct pkg-config search path if your gtk+ installation
+ - Set the correct pkg-config search path if your Gtk+ installation
is in an unusual place, by adding it to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable before starting lisp.
- - Set *cmucl-include-path* to point to the directory where the
- lisp.h file resides, if it is not in the default place. Try "locate
- 'lisp/lisp.h'" if you don't know the location.
+ - Make sure ASDF finds the system definition files:
+ $ cd ~/.clc/systems
+ $ find <path to clg> -name '*.asd' -exec ln -s {} . \;
3. Compile and load the system:
(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :gtk)
- Currently it will fail with:
+ In CMUCL this will currently fail with:
Error in function KERNEL::%REDEFINE-DEFSTRUCT:
Redefining class PCL::SLOT-INFO incompatibly with the current definition.
- Just accept the redefinition (restart 1) to continue building or loading.
+ Just accept the redefinition (restart 1) to continue building or
+ loading. To avoid doing this every time clg is loaded, one may
+ compile and load glib/pcl.lisp in newly started CMUCL process and
+ save an new core image.
+
+ If you are running SBCL with Slime you need to put the following
+ line in ~/.swank.lisp to prevent Slime from spawning multiple
+ threads, since Gtk+ is not thread safe:
+
+ #+sbcl(setq swank:*communication-style* :fd-handler)
4. If everything worked, try (load "hello-world") to see a small
window pop up, and then run testgtk.lisp in the example directory.
-Send comments and patches to clg-devel@lists.sourceforge.net or
-espen@users.sourceforge.net.
+Guidelines for using the GTK+ API documentation
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+Here are some brief guidelines for using the GTK+ API documentation. A
+lot of (both intentionally and unintentionally) inconsistencies
+exists, so it is also wise to check the source code.
+
+- library prefixes are stripped from all symbols
+
+- the get/set part are removed from regular accessors, but retained
+ in functions which set or retrieve multiple values
+- predicate functions follow the normal convention of ending
+ with '-P'
+- if there are multiple similar named functions which only differ in
+ the type of argument they accept, only one function accepting any
+ kind of valid argument types is provided
+- there are no gtk_*_new functions, use MAKE-INSTANCE to create widgets
+
+- all object properties are available as virtual slots. A lot of
+ "missing" properties are manually defined as slots
+
+- use CHILD-PROPERTY-VALUE or automatically defined accessors to
+ access child properties
+
+- use STYLE-PROPERTY-VALUE to access style properties
+
+- the only function used to connect signals is SIGNAL-CONNECT
+
+
+
+
+
+Send comments and patches to clg-devel@lists.sourceforge.net or
+espen@users.sourceforge.net.
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