Building CMU Common Lisp

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CMU CL is one of the major Common Lisp implementations. This page contains various stuff I've found useful in building or maintaining CMU CL.

Building CMU CL

You can find the set of scripts that I use for building and packaging CMU CL, together with a fairly readable set of instructions here in their current release 2.4.

The scripts allow you to build multiple independent targets from the same source-tree, and give fairly good control of the various stages of the build-process.

The scripts are also available through anonymous CVS:

cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.pmsf.net:/prj/EXPORT/pubcvs' login
# Password is guest
cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.pmsf.net:/prj/EXPORT/pubcvs' co build-tools

It is usually sensible to check out the build-tools and the CMUCL sources into the same directory, e.g.:

cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.pmsf.net:/prj/EXPORT/pubcvs' login
# Password is guest
cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.pmsf.net:/prj/EXPORT/pubcvs' co build-tools
cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs2.cons.org:/home/anoncvs/CVS-cmucl' login
# The password is anonymous
cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs2.cons.org:/home/anoncvs/CVS-cmucl' co src
# Now create target directory, configure, and build, e.g.:
./build-tools/create-target.sh linux linux_gencgc x86
# Possibly frob linux/setenv.lisp here
./build-tools/build-world.sh linux
./build-tools/rebuild-lisp.sh linux
./build-tools/build-world.sh linux
./build-tools/load-world.sh linux "18e+ 2003-04-01"