CL-Launch will allow you to invoke Common Lisp source code from the shell
command line or from a shell script. It will also allow you to turn your
Common Lisp source programs into standalone executables or executable shell
scripts (optionally using a dumped image), depending on the features
available in your underlying implementation.
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CL-Launch will automatically detect a supported Common Lisp implementation
and use adequate invocation options. It can also be configured to fit exactly
the programmer's desires. Fully supported implementations are:
Allegro, CLISP, ClozureCL, CMUCL, ECL, GCL 2.7, SBCL, SCL.
Of these, SBCL, ECL and CLISP support creating standalone executables.
Partially supported implementations are:
LispWorks Professional, ABCL, GCL 2.6, XCL.
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CL-Launch also offers Common Lisp programs a simple uniform interface to
invocation parameters (command-line arguments and environment variables).
It relies on ASDF 2 for system construction. See the ASDF 2 manual for
more information on how to configure source and object code location.
CL-Launch may dump memory images for fast startup (at the expense of disk
space). It can also be used as a quick way to evaluate and print simple Lisp
forms or scripts from the command-line without invoking a full-fledged REPL,
and to easily compare results between implementations.