> Sorry, my name is Juanjo, not Franjo :-) Apologies, no disrespect intended.
> Regarding compile-in-constants, I think you guys do not know the real > history. Microsoft's compiler has a severe limitation in compiler > string size. This means we cannot build constant data that takes more > than 64k. The only way we escape this in FASL files is by appending > the data to the compiled file. This *does not work*with standalone > executables for various reasons: we cannot append the data to the > object files (the linker complains); even if this was solved, we > cannot append it to the executable, because there is no way to locate > it (other than searching through the path, but not even that, > always). I don't think 64k is such a severe limitation; for code using very long string literals couldn't we use embedded resources instead? > In any case, it is not that hard to do this one-liner > > $ ecl -eval '(ext:install-c-compiler)' -o foo.o -compile foo.lsp -s Very nice! Thank you Juanjo. Ralph. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
