[cmucl-help] CMUCL and WSL?

[Steven Nunez]

Hi all,
Just discovered the numeric capabilities of CMUCL. A bit surprising that these improvements haven't made it into the other implementations, but perhaps number-crunching with Lisp isn't popular any longer.
The biggest stumbling block I have is MS Windows 10. I don't hold out much hope CMUCL will run there, though I did note some previous attempts. Even SBCL struggles with this platform. But, there is the new Windows Subsystem for Linux that might offer some hope. Has anyone got CMUCL working with WSL? We already have X servers on the Windows desktops.

Barring that, are any particular flavours of UNIX better supported than others? FreeBSD would be my first choice. Basically I'll be giving CMUCL a spin to see if we can use it on projects and I'm looking for the path of least resistance. Even a FreeBSD VM might raise some eyebrows, so I'm really hoping for WSL.

Regards,    Steve