[CM] Windows and Lisp for Common Music

Wed Dec 19 12:35:12 PST 2007

Ok clisp-2.4.3 did indeed generate a .bat file, but it looks as follows, 
so I fixed it:
:: Windows startup script for Common Music
@echo off
C:\Program Files\clisp-2.43/full/lisp.exe -B C:\Program Files\clisp-2.43 
-M C:\Program Files\clisp-2.43/full/lispinit.mem -N C:\Program 
Files\clisp-2.43\locale -K full -x "(progn (load 
\"C:/cygwin/home/W049945/prg/lisp-asdf/cm/src/cm.lisp\" :verbose nil) 
(cm))" -repl %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Here is my best attempt to fix it:
:: Windows startup script for Common Music
@echo off
"C:\Program Files\clisp-2.43\full\lisp.exe" -B "C:\Program 
Files\clisp-2.43" -M "C:\Program Files\clisp-2.43\full\lispinit.mem" -N 
"C:\Program Files\clisp-2.43\locale" -K full -x "(progn (load 
\"C:\\cygwin\\home\\W049945\\prg\\lisp-asdf\\cm\\src\\cm.lisp\\" :verbose 
nil) (cm))" -repl %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

but then I got: 

C:\cygwin\home\W049945\prg\lisp-asdf\cm\bin>cm
GNU CLISP: -x with lisp-file is invalid: ':verbose'

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Rick Taube <taube at uiuc.edu> 
12/19/2007 02:58 PM

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cmdist at ccrma.stanford.edu
Subject
Re: [CM] Windows and Lisp for Common Music

> Well...
> I set my Lisp program to clisp and then sbcl, but in both cases, I 
> get an error trying to run cm.sh, which is not surprising based on 
> the contents of that file - it is a Unix shell script.

on xp you will need to generate the cm.bat file. You do this by 
starting CLISP and then loading the cm.lisp file.

                 C:> clisp
                 [1]> (load "/path/to/cm/src/cm.lisp")

that should create the file

                 /path/to/cm/bin/cm.bat

you can use that to start cm from the shell or via slime (better look 
at the contents of cm.bat first to see if it looks right...)
To start CM in Emacs with slime loaded do:

                 M-: (setq inferior-lisp-command "/path/to/cm/bin/cm.bat")
                 M-x slime

OR add this in your .emacs file:

(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)
(load "/path/to/cm/etc/emacs/cm.el")
(setq cm-program "/path/to/cm/bin/cm.bat")

; uncomment if you want to use sal
; (load "/Lisp/cm/etc/emacs/sal-mode.el")

(enable-cm-commands)

with these inits in effect you can do
                 M-x cm

and you should get CM running in CLISP a buffer. You should also be 
able to generate a cm.bat file from in SBCL/WIndows, i tried last 
summer but WinSBCL was so flakey i gave up and threw it out. THis is 
why im getting out of (Common Lisp) develpment, its simply too 
difficult to get anything working everywhere or to encorpoprate 
graphics.

> Also, I googled and found out the website of Grace - http:// 
> pinhead.music.uiuc.edu/~hkt/grace/doc/ - but still dont know 
> exactly what it does or how it fits into the Common Music scheme of 
> things.

Its a C++ app written in JUCE. It has two bindings, one to Common 
Lisp and one to Chicken Scheme. If you are using Common Lisp/Common 
Music, you can use Grace as a cross platform replacement for EMACS + 
LISP + SLIME + COMMON MUSIC .  (Lets call this GraceCL.) In addition 
to being cross-platform, GraceCL provides graphics, menus, a code 
editor with syntax highlighting etc.

The "main" development path for Grace is a tight bundling with 
CHicken Scheme, which provides realtime scheduling and allows for 
direct port connections (MIDI for now) , again in a single, cross 
platform environment.

Grace is still in its infancy but it is very usable. I taught my 
Intro to Algorithic Composition with GraceCL last semseter, the class 
was using Sal syntax and most of the class was composing interesting, 
sophisticated music by the end of the semester.

> I presume at some point a link to some informative docs will be 
> here - http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/doc/cm.html#implementation

  sure, at some point. you can read the docs under the grace/doc tree 
for more information. these are also available under Help menu in grace.

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