Compiling from source

Nyxt
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Hi guys.

I am trying to compile Nyxt from scratch as per instructions on the github page:

  1. $LISP to create a new Lisp REPL (replace $LISP with sbcl or any supported Common Lisp compiler).
  2. Execute (require :asdf) if ASDF is not already loaded.
  3. Execute (asdf:load-asd "/full/path/to/nyxt.asd") to load the Nyxt system definition (you must use absolute pathnames).
  4. Execute (ql:quickload :nyxt/gi-gtk) to load the Nyxt system into your Lisp image.
  5. Execute (nyxt:start) to open your first Nyxt window.

I git cloned and ran step #4, but i get the following error:


[package new-let].................................
[package gmap]....................................
[package rev-fun-bind]............................
[package lexical-contexts]........................
[package mt19937].................................
[package fset]....................................
[package fset-user]...............................
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To load "nyxt/gi-gtk":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    nyxt/gi-gtk
; Loading "nyxt/gi-gtk"
To load "nsymbols/star":
  Load 2 ASDF systems:
    asdf closer-mop
  Install 1 Quicklisp release:
    nsymbols
; Fetching #<URL "http://beta.quicklisp.org/archive/nsymbols/2023-02-14/nsymbols-20230214-git.tgz">
; 32.59KB
==================================================
33,369 bytes in 0.13 seconds (246.87KB/sec)
; Loading "nsymbols/star"
..
To load "nyxt/gi-gtk":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    nyxt/gi-gtk
; Loading "nyxt/gi-gtk"

debugger invoked on a QUICKLISP-CLIENT:SYSTEM-NOT-FOUND in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1001880173}>:
  System "prompter" not found

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [CONTINUE               ] Try again
  1: [ABORT                  ] Give up on "prompter"
  2:                           Give up on "nyxt/gi-gtk"
  3: [REGISTER-LOCAL-PROJECTS] Register local projects and try again.
  4:                           Exit debugger, returning to top level.

((LABELS QUICKLISP-CLIENT::RECURSE :IN QUICKLISP-CLIENT::COMPUTE-LOAD-STRATEGY) "prompter")
   source: (CERROR "Try again" 'SYSTEM-NOT-FOUND :NAME NAME)
0]

Any suggestions on how to resolve that issue?

2

Hello! So the thing is that not all of our libraries are yet in Quicklisp, so what you can do is manually clone the prompter library and place it in a place that Quicklisp will find it!

Additionally, what might be a lot easier is just doing a recursive clone of the project with all of the submodules and copying those to a place that Quicklisp will find them. That way, you can be sure you have all of the correct modules.

3

Thank you for the quick answer. I am not sure I understood you correctly. However I hadn’t had SBCL installed yet so I did this, installed quicklisp, then cloned prompter into the quicklisp/local-projects/ folder and also extracted nyxt into that.

Not working however. Sorry for the inconvenience. Any further lead would be much appreciated.

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Try putting it into ~/common-lisp/ folder. ~quicklisp/local-projects/ is Quicklisp-specific, while ~/common-lisp/ is also working for ASDF, which we’re using in our default build procedure.