Clozure CL 1.12.2

[xrme]

This is Clozure CL 1.12.2.

There are two ways to obtain a copy of the release.

If you are not interested in tracking or updating CCL sources at all, you may download an archive file of the form ccl-1.12.2-platform.gz. This archive will contain everything you need to run CCL (including complete source code and binaries), but not a copy of the Git repository.

If, on the other hand, you would like to be able to pull updates from Git, follow these steps:

1. Obtain source code by cloning the repository (with git clone https://github.com/Clozure/ccl.git)
2. Download and extract the bootstrapping binaries for your system. Because CCL is written in itself, you need an already-working copy of CCL to compile it. The archive also contains a database derived from the system header files which is used by the FFI.

For example, to get a copy of CCL for Linux/x86, you would say:

git clone https://github.com/Clozure/ccl.git ccl
curl -L -O https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases/download/v1.12.2/linuxx86.tar.gz
cd ccl
tar xf ../linuxx86.tar.gz

After unpacking the binaries, you can rebuild CCL by evaluating (rebuild-ccl :full t) as usual.

Unfortunately, on Windows and recent macOS versions, (rebuild-ccl :full t) will not work. On those systems, you must build the lisp kernel binary (a program written in C and assembly language) separately. To do this, use the following commands:

cd lisp-kernel/darwinx8664
# or lisp-kernel/win64 or lisp-kernel/win32
make clean
make

When that is done, start the lisp and evaluate (rebuild-ccl :clean t). This does the same thing as :full t, except it will not attempt to rebuild the lisp kernel for you.

Binaries were built on the following systems:

Platform	Version
darwin/x86	Xcode tools 14.3.1 on macOS Ventura 13.5
freebsd/x86	FreeBSD 12.4
linux/arm	Raspian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi
linux/x86	Ubuntu 22.04.2
solaris/x86	OmniOS LTS (r151046)
windows/x86	Windows 10 with MSYS2 (MINGW32 environment for 32-bit, and MINGW64 environment for 64-bit)

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This discussion was created from the release Clozure CL 1.12.2.

[barton-willis]

FYI: Maxima compiled with Clozure CL 1.12.2 runs our main testsuite with no errors. Thanks for the work on the new Clozure version!

[xrme]

Thanks for that note. I'm glad to hear it.