Windows versions of CCL available for smoke-testing
32- and 64-bit versions of Clozure CL for Windows are now available in svn:
<http://svn.clozure.com/publicsvn/openmcl/trunk/windows>
The 64-bit version's been available for a while; the 32-bit version's
brand new (and still contains some known runtime bugs, along with all
of the unknown ones.) We only have a few (real or virtual) Windows
boxes available, so it'd be helpful if people with (a) interest (b)
some time and (c) access to real or virtual Windows boxes could
take this for a ride around the block, kick the tires, etc.
As of yesterday, the win32 version could compile itself successfully
3 times out of 4 and crashed the 4th time. The win64 version hasn't
had a random unexpected crash in a few months, but AFAIK I've been
the only person using it much. As much as anything, it'd be interesting
to see if this general impression (the win32 port is at the outer bounds
if usability, the win64 port is generally a lot closer) is confirmed or
refuted by other people's experience.
Both version should run under XP or Vista (but almost certainly not under
anything older than XP.) XP is several years old now, and XP with a
recent "service pack" is somewhat different from earlier version. Most
of the Win32 development's been done under a fairly recent (SP3) version
of XP; it'd be interesting to know whether it works on eariler versions.
The 64-bit version requires a 64-bit version of Windows (XP64, Vista 64.
maybe some server OS versions.) It's currently the case that the 32-bit
version of CCL doesn't run under 64-bit OS releases. We understand why
it doesn't, and hope to remove this restriction ASAP.
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