Comments on: How to setup Clojure from scratch

By: ScottM

ScottM — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:26:17 +0000

…rebooted and everything works fine.
Thanks for the guide.

By: ScottM

ScottM — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:51:23 +0000

for some reason trying to perform step 5 completely kills my machine. can’t find out what’s broken as ps, top & activity monitor all hang

By: MC

MC — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:46:17 +0000

Cygwin changes:

Assuming you have rlwrap in your path, you just need to fix the classpath so java doesn’t complain:

CLOJURE_CP=`cygpath -wp “$CLOJURE_CP”`

I also added multi-line ability to rlwrap:

exec rlwrap -m ‘\’ -r -c -b $breakchars ..etc..

so ctrl-^ opens an editor.

Don’t forget other rlwrap tricks like ctrl-r to search.

By: David J.

David J. — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:56:58 +0000

+1 for homebrew. Doesn’t have duplication issues like MacPorts and keeps everything in a central folder for an easy uninstall.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:17:11 +0000

On Windows, you should really use cljr: http://github.com/liebke/cljr

By: anjan bacchu

anjan bacchu — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:14:17 +0000

hi there,

how about windows users ? step 1 and 2 seem to be similar assuming we have cygwin installed. How about other steps ?

BR,
~A

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:52:40 +0000

Hey Phil,

thanks for stopping by. While there are easier ways these days, I wanted to show how to do it from scratch (ergo the title), because, contrary to popular belief, it’s not that difficult. I updated the post with your suggestion, though.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:48:23 +0000

Good spotting, Steve. One can use curl, as you suggest, or install wget through MacPorts (port install wget) or Homebrew (brew install wget).

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:46:20 +0000

While I appreciate topics like this getting more coverage, I hope newbies don’t get the idea that it’s this complicated to get started with Clojure. These days it’s much easier to get started with a standalone repl using cljr or a project setup using Leiningen.

By: Steve Miner

Steve Miner — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:41:47 +0000

wget is no longer a standard utility on Mac OS X. You can use ‘curl -O’ instead.