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by jmorrison 2355 days ago
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Built with reasonably recent McCLIM and SBCL. At one point, had it running under CCL on one of my Raspberry Pi boxes (the 3, I think). Would have made a cool pocket, ersatz LispM.

Source code:

https://bitbucket.org/symbolicsimulation/com.symsim.oss.lisp...

Yeah, I know it's a mess. With the exception of updating the calls to the inspector just now (in case anybody tried to build it), it's just as I last left it a few years ago - with the proverbial hood open, subsystems not really working, and parts lying all over the floor.

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Do you happen to know whether there's any McCLIM library that works on Windows with SBCL?
McCLIM's native Windows backend is in a very early stage of development, if not abandoned. You can use McCLIM on Windows with an X server, e.g. VcXsrv or Xming.
A useful step could be for some Windows developers to recommend which low-level graphics API McCLIM should use.
Since none of the McCLIM contributors use Windows, there have been very little work on a Windows backend.

One idea has been to use a common low level interface such as SDL to implement a backend, which would then be very easy to get to work on Windows. Like you said, some Windows developers would have to provide input as to which one would be the most appropriate.

You can pay for LispWorks (inseado of sbcl) and it will run CLIM programs under Windows.

Note that sbcl is just another Common Lisp implementation, you could use others as well.