Emacs+Slime inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 5

Question

I try to install slime in emacs. I follow many manuals and got one oucome.

"M-x slime" trow exeption "process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 5"

OS Windows 8.1
GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of
2018-05-30
SBCL 1.4.2
SLIME 2.22

My .emacs file text

(setq inferior-lisp-program "C:/SBCL/sbcl.exe") 
(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/slime/") 
(require 'slime)

Following the comment, I tried to understand where the installation falls

-(load #P"C:/slime/swank-loader")
-T
-(swank-loader::init :reload t)
-WARNING: redefining EMACS-INSPECT (#(SB-PCL:SYSTEM-CLASS COMMON-LISP:T)) in DEFMETHOD
NIL 
-(swank:create-server :port 7777)

;;Swank started at port:7777

In Emacs
-M-x slime-connect
Host: localhost
Port: 7777

-Lisp connection closed unexpectedly: connection broken by remote peer

In other topics where i saw that error message, peoples run complex sourcecode with mistakes. The problem was solved by correcting errors. It seems like different situation or i don't understand something.

I am not using Windows 8 but would suggested you give portacle a try. It has everything for starting CL you need bundled. Futhermore, you could check the SBCL mailing list as it seems to be an issue with the windows port. — Martin Buchmann
Maybe change SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* to one of NIL, :FD-HANDLER, :SIGIO instead of the default :SPAWN. Do not load any user-init file. — coredump

coredump coredump · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-10T07:43:22

This is too long for a comment.

You need to find out at which layer the problem occurs. Try for example to run SBCL in a shell with the same command-line (e.g. C:/SBCL/sbcl.exe); if it works, in the REPL:

CL-USER> (load #P"C:/slime/swank-loader")

If that works, you can manually init the swank backend (the Common Lisp part of the Slime/Swank protocol).

CL-USER> (swank-loader::init :reload t)

Then, try to start a server (the port value is arbitrary):

CL-USER> (swank:create-server :port 7777)

If a server starts, you can try to run slime-connect from Emacs, using the localhost port and the same port.

Emacs+Slime inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 5

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