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Compiling in SBCL (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by supercompass@alien.top to c/lisp

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I have seen that sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die is used to make executables from sourc code, but how do you make the executable for specific systems? e.g. Linux, Windows, Apple.

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[–] Realistic-Nobody-816@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

`save-lisp-and-die` just saves a core images which has the same global state as the current image, the saved image is executable when the `:EXECUTABLE` is `true`. However, you can only save the image for the underlying OS, eg, if you run `sbcl` in Linux, `save-lisp-and-die` will only save a Linux version.

The typical usages of `save-lisp-and-die` are, when you want to run this lisp image as a standalone exe, or when you load a lot of libs or large data set, you can save it to another image and run that image afterwards, that will save you a lot of loading time.