lisp-init

My cross-platform Common Lisp environment initialization script

Usage

1. Clone the repository into any local directory (I prefer $HOME/Lisp/init)
2. Download and install Quicklisp from [https://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp]
3. Create soft link from load.lisp to the initialization files of your Common Lisp platforms

NOTE: on Windows, instead of creating soft links, I put a (load "load.lisp") with full pathname from initialization files of my CL platforms.

4. Clone latest ASDF from [https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf.git], put at $HOME/Lisp/asdf and build the final asdf.lisp. For old CL platforms, call (recompile-asdf) and explicitly load it in load.lisp, before initialize Quicklisp.

Local ASDF projects

There're two ways to make them ASDF-loadable:

• Put the projects into Quicklisp's local-projects folder
• Put them in $HOME/Lisp and modify load.lisp with an explicit list of them.

Name of initialization files for various Common Lisp platforms

By default all files are in home directory, e.g. $HOME/.lispworks

• Allegro CL: .clinit.cl
• ArmedBear Common Lisp: .abclrc
• Clozure CL: .ccl-init.lisp
• CMU Common Lisp: .cmucl-init.lisp
• Embeddable Common-Lisp: .eclrc
• GNU CLISP: .clisprc
• LispWorks: .lispworks
• Macintosh Common Lisp: init.lisp in MCL folder
• SBCL: .sbclrc

Other useful scripts:

• save-lw.lisp and save-lw-motif.lisp: LispWorks image building scripts