Re: [Chicken-users] Is there a Common Lisp like Chicken that compiles to C?

[John Long]

Hi John,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 09:16:15AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> John Long scripsit:
> 
> > Thanks, I saw that and it looks good at first glance but it's GPL. Anything
> > else worth looking at?
> 
> Not really.  ECL and GCL are cousins (from the old Kyoto CL code base)
> and are both GPL.  CLiCC is GPL, unmaintained, and supports only a "large
> subset" of CLtL1.  ThinLisp is Apache, but it's also unmaintained and
> supports only a subset.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, ECL apparently won't build on OpenBSD
MIPS because of lack of boehm-gc support for MIPS. So that's out for now
anyway.

> The good news is that CMUCL and SBCL (which is a slowly diverging fork of
> CMUCL), at least according to Weinreb's latest (now last, alas!) survey
> at <http://common-lisp.net/~dlw/LispSurvey.html>, have MIPS backends
> for their native compilers.  How well maintained they are I don't know.

I was able to build CLISP on my OpenBSD box but I couldn't build SBCL with
CLISP. I asked on the SBCL list and they said they require a 32 bit ABI.
OpenBSD MIPS uses a 64 bit ABI , so SBCL won't work on my platform 
either. I'll ask on the CMUCL list. Thank you.

/jl

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