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Prerequisites

You will need to have recent versions of the Common Lisp implementations you want to work with installed and available as the Makefile requires. Installation is different depending on operating system.

Support for Common Lisp implementations varies over different operating systems. By default, only implementations available in binary form are built with the make all command. Check the value of the All variable in the Makefile to see which are supported for your OS and architecture.

Check the project page for any CL implementation to build from source if necessary.

BSD

Below is a summary of currently supported implementations per BSD variant. As always, you should check for yourself the availability of these CLs with the package manager of the particular BSD you are running, e.g., pkg search sbcl or pkg_info -Q sbcl.

FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD
CLisp N/A pkg_add clisp pkg_add clisp
CCL pkg install ccl N/A N/A
ECL pkg install ecl pkg_add ecl pkg_add ecl
SBCL pkg install sbcl pkg_add sbcl pkg_add sbcl (i386 Only)

Also, you will need to install GNU make. This repo's Makefile is a GNU make makefile and typing make ... is likely to invoke the system make (BSD make) and quit on you harshly, complaining about parsing errors. Hence, it is necessary to ensure that the gmake package/port is installed, and replace make ... in the instructions below with gmake ....

Linux

CLisp, ECL and SBCL are available through apt. Just run sudo apt install clisp ecl sbcl.

ECL requires libffi-dev to build, which can also be retrieved through apt.

There is a separately available debian package for Clozure. Download and install with dpkg -i.

If the version of SBCL available throught apt is too old, a sufficiently new version is available from debian.

macOS

CLisp, Clozure, ECL and SBCL can be acquired through Homebrew with brew install clisp clozure-cl ecl sbcl.

Windows

CLisp has an installer and a zip package on SoureForge. You'll have to include clisp.exe as well as libintl-8.dll and libreadline6.dll in on your PATH to ensure the clisp build of shen-cl will run.

Clozure will need to be installed manually:

  • Download the zip from here and extract it under Program Files.
  • Add the Clozure directory to your PATH or add a script named ccl.cmd to somewhere in your PATH containing something like:
@echo off
"C:\Program Files\ccl\wx86cl64.exe" %*

ECL needs to be built from source. Refer to the appveyor.yml config for build procedure. Requires Visual Studio 2015+ tools. ECL support is spotty on Windows and is not included in make all when on Windows.

SBCL has an msi package on its download page.

The Makefile is not very Windows-friendly, so a toolset like GOW can fill the gap, or use MGWIN or Cygwin.

The Makefile also requires Powershell at version 4 or higher).