Common Lisp Recipes

This repository contains a collection of Common Lisp recipes that I found helpful.

Creating a project skeleton

* (ql:quickload "quickproject")
* (quickproject:make-project #p"~/src/myproject/" :depends-on '(drakma cxml))
* (asdf:load-system "myproject")

Building self-contained executables

SBCL

SB-EXT:SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE

https://koji-kojiro.github.io/sb-docs/build/html/sb-ext/function/SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE.html

Example

sbcl --eval '(ql:quickload :myproject)'                                            \
     --eval "(sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die #p\"myproject\" :compression 9              \
                                                       :toplevel #'myproject::main \
                                                       :executable t)"

buildapp

https://www.xach.com/lisp/buildapp/

Usage

Example 1

buildapp --output myproject                            \
         --compress-core                               \
         --asdf-path ~/src/myproject/                  \
         --load-system myproject                       \
         --eval '(defun main (args) (myproject:main))' \
         --entry main

Example 2

buildapp --eval '(defun main (argv) (declare (ignore argv)) (write-line "Hello, world"))' \
         --entry main                                                                     \
         --compress-core                                                                  \
         --output hello-world

Executing a shell command

INFERIOR-SHELL

https://github.com/fare/inferior-shell

(ql:quickload "inferior-shell")
(inferior-shell:run "ls"
                    :on-error nil
                    :error-output :string
                    :output :string)

Scheduling a job

Clerk

https://github.com/lisp-maintainers/clerk

(ql:quickload "clerk")
(clerk:job "print hello" every 5.seconds (print "hello"))
(clerk:start)
...
(clerk:stop)
(clerk:empty-jobs-queue)