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Installing Common Lisp on Windows 64bit from Scratch

(For a simple "one step" non-emacs install see: https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog-win64-ez/releases)

also see Install and Using OCICL on all platforms

  1. Download and install rho-emacs:

    https://gchristensen.github.io/rho-emacs/

    https://github.com/GChristensen/rho-emacs/releases

    When installing choose C:\Users\yourname for the "home folder"

    I like a plain emacs, others like the various default extensions and themes.

  2. Install sbcl:

    https://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html

  3. Get GIT 64 bit:

    https://git-scm.com/download/win

    Even if you don't use GIT, it installs the needed ssl files and some basic unix tools like bash

    You should choose for line endings, checkout as-is, commit unix-style line endings sbcl does not handle crlf well in certain situations

    You should also choose to use the MSYS bash shell

  4. Get the 64 bit SQLite DLL from:

    https://www.sqlite.org/download.html

    Double clip the downloaded dll zip and copy the contents of the zip file to C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin

  5. Download QuickLisp:

    Open the Git Bash shell from your windows apps and run

   cd
   curl -o /tmp/ql.lisp http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
  1. Install QuickLisp:

    Continue in the Git Bash shell and run

   sbcl --no-sysinit --no-userinit --load /tmp/ql.lisp \
       --eval '(quicklisp-quickstart:install :path "~/.quicklisp")' \
       --eval '(ql:add-to-init-file)' \
       --quit
   sbcl --eval '(ql:quickload :quicklisp-slime-helper)' --quit

Run rho emacs with (I would add to path or make a script):

  /c/Program\ Files/rho-emacs/rho

Use C-x-f and create the file ~/.emacs.d/init.el

  (load (expand-file-name "~/.quicklisp/slime-helper.el"))
  (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
  1. Install the UltraLisp distro for recent software for quicklisp:
sbcl --eval '(ql-dist:install-dist "http://dist.ultralisp.org/" :prompt nil)' --eval '(ql:update-all-dists)' --quit
  1. Install CLOG and run CLOG Builder for a rich GUI Lisp IDE that works with emacs also:
sbcl --eval '(ql:quickload :clog/tools)' --eval '(clog-tools:clog-builder)'
  1. Restart Emacs

Quit emacs - C-x C-y

Start again emacs

   /c/Program\ Files/rho-emacs/rho

Run Slime - M-x slime

NOTES for Windows:

I have a zip with the needed DLLs should it come up - https://rabbibotton.github.io/clog/clogframe.zip and clograme.exe for use with clog/clogframe

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