Tutorial by Examples

Standalone Common Lisp binaries can be built with buildapp. Before we can use it to generate binaries, we need to install and build it. The easiest way I know how is using quicklisp and a Common Lisp (this example uses [sbcl], but it shouldn't make a difference which one you've got). $ sbcl Thi...

The simplest possible binary you could build Has no dependencies Takes no command line arguments Just writes "Hello world!" to stdout After you've built buildapp, you can just... $ buildapp --eval '(defun main (argv) (declare (ignore argv)) (write-line "Hello, world!"))'...

A more realistic example involves a project you're building with multiple files on disk (rather than an --eval option passed to buildapp), and some dependencies to pull in. Because arbitrary things can happen during the finding and loading of asdf systems (including loading other, potentially unrel...