[cmucl-help] CMUCL and WSL?

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Nunez <steve_nunez at yahoo.com> writes:

    Steven> Hi all,

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

Some time ago, Carl Shapiro had some build of cmucl working on
Windows.  I remember trying it out and it pretty much worked.
Unfortunately, it was never checked in and I don't know where my copy
is or how to get a new one.  It was a prototype but it worked.

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

I would have to say Linux is the best supported as that's the only one
I use.  NetBSD still works and gets updated pretty regularly.
Unfortunately, no one has stepped up to maintain a FreeBSD version.

Mac OS was also pretty well supported, but now that 10.15 doesn't
support 32-bit binaries, cmucl is pretty much dead there until it gets
64-bit support.  (Coming along very, very slowly as time and motivation
are available.)

--
Ray