[Sbcl-help] Local (Non-Admin) Windows installation of SBCL

[Gary Hollis]

Hi all,

I recently was trying to use SBCL in a Windows environment where I do
not have admin privileges and there is a policy against installing MSI
packages for users, but not against running executables from user
directories.

I've been able to extract `sbcl.exe` and its FASL/ASD files from the MSI
install file provided on the website

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sbcl/sbcl-2.3.1-x86-64-windows-binary.msi

but I was wondering if there was a better way to create a user/non-admin
installation of SBCL on a windows machine without needing to recompile
the system (which would itself require some Lisp implementation to be
installed and there's little chance of that happening unless I'm able to
have a user installation of at least one of them.

If I knew the correct order of load arguments, e.g.

start sbcl.exe --load File_obj_sbcl.home_contrib_uiop.fasl ...

then it appears this would also work as an option, but there's also an
sbcl.core file provided.

Any tips on making a user installation of SBCL from downloaded binaries?

Best regards,
Gary


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[Stas Boukarev]

I don't think you need any special arguments, If you have a contrib/ directory beside sbcl.exe and sbcl.core everything should work. (or is supposed to work)