Is possible to use the CMUCL on Windows?

Yongwei Xing

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Sep 8, 2009, 10:55:45 AM9/8/09

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Hi all

The CMUCL do not have the Window version. If I install a Cygwin on the
window, can I use the CMUCL?

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Pascal J. Bourguignon

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Sep 8, 2009, 2:05:56 PM9/8/09

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Yongwei Xing <jdxy...@gmail.com> writes:
> The CMUCL do not have the Window version. If I install a Cygwin on the
> window, can I use the CMUCL?

AFAIK, it wouldn't be easy to do.
http://www.cons.org/cmucl/platforms.html

It would be easier to use SBCL on MS-Windows which is a fork of CMUCL,
but even SBCL is only currently being ported to MS-Windows, so it
might not work perfectly. http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/

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Francogrex

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Sep 8, 2009, 3:29:29 PM9/8/09

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On Sep 8, 8:05 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:

> Yongwei Xing <jdxyw2...@gmail.com> writes:
> > The CMUCL do not have the Window version. If I install a Cygwin on the
> > window, can I use the CMUCL?
>

> AFAIK, it wouldn't be easy to do.http://www.cons.org/cmucl/platforms.html

>
> It would be easier to use SBCL on MS-Windows which is a fork of CMUCL,
> but even SBCL is only currently being ported to MS-Windows, so it
> might not work perfectly. http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__

yes SBCL on windows seems buggy; but I don't know about 'currently',
it's been around (at least I've been using it) for over a year on
win32.

Johan Ur Riise

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Sep 9, 2009, 6:52:50 AM9/9/09

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Francogrex <fra...@grex.org> writes:

Another alternative is Clozure CL for windows, which seems to work.

Raymond Toy

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Sep 9, 2009, 8:29:07 AM9/9/09

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>>>>> "Yongwei" == Yongwei Xing <jdxy...@gmail.com> writes:

Yongwei> Hi all
Yongwei> The CMUCL do not have the Window version. If I install a Cygwin on the
Yongwei> window, can I use the CMUCL?

No. Some additional alternatives are clisp, ecl, and gcl. Don't
forget about the commercial ones too. There are probably others that
would run Windows too.

(Having said that, I did get to try Carl Shapiro's port of cmucl to
windows some time ago. Seemed to work, but definitely was not
complete.)

Ray

kodifik

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Sep 9, 2009, 1:30:45 PM9/9/09

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On Sep 8, 4:55 pm, Yongwei Xing <jdxyw2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> The CMUCL do not have the Window version. If I install a Cygwin on the
> window, can I use the CMUCL?

First things first:
Use Linux, or Solaris, or FreeBSD, or a lispm...
Build your house on rock, not on sand.

Slobodan Blazeski

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Sep 9, 2009, 6:23:33 PM9/9/09

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On Sep 9, 2:29 pm, Raymond Toy <raymond....@stericsson.com> wrote:

> >>>>> "Yongwei" == Yongwei Xing <jdxyw2...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Yongwei> Hi all
> Yongwei> The CMUCL do not have the Window version. If I install a Cygwin on the
> Yongwei> window, can I use the CMUCL?
>
> No. Some additional alternatives are clisp, ecl, and gcl.

Clisp and ecl are alright but stay away from gcl.

Bobi

tknits.k...@googlemail.com

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Sep 10, 2009, 4:49:47 AM9/10/09

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On Sep 10, 12:23 am, Slobodan Blazeski <slobodan.blaze...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sep 9, 2:29 pm, Raymond Toy <raymond....@stericsson.com> wrote:> >>>>> "Yongwei" == Yongwei Xing <jdxyw2...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Yongwei> Hi all
> > Yongwei> The CMUCL do not have the Window version. If I install a Cygwin on the
> > Yongwei> window, can I use the CMUCL?
>
> > No. Some additional alternatives are clisp, ecl, and gcl.
>
> Clisp and ecl are alright but stay away from gcl.
>
> Bobi
>
> > Don't
> > forget about the commercial ones too. There are probably others that
> > would run Windows too.

Clisp still works best but is still slower than sbcl. I myself never
had problems with sbcl under windows, except that it is not the newest
version, that is, some libraries rely on newer features of sbcl, which
arent there yet. ECL has problems under windows right now afaik.
Another free alternative to mention is abcl, which runs under java,
but is still under heavy development.

As I said, I never had problems with sbcl under windows. And clisp
works perfect. Still, there are also the commercial implementations,
namely Allegro CL and LispWorks. I myself like Allegro CL better, but
thats a matter of taste.

CSS

Juanjo

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Sep 10, 2009, 5:29:33 AM9/10/09

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On Sep 10, 10:49 am, "christoph.sen...@web.de"
<tknits.kitsahc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> ECLhas problems under windows right now afaik.

NO, they have been solved. ECL builds and runs just fine using the
free version of Microsoft Visual Studio
http://ecls.sourceforge.net/logs.html