SBCL installation in linux

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How to install sbcl in os linux for a freshman of lisp.

I found just use the command sh install.sh the error info is: src/runtime/sbcl not found, aborting installation

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If you are using the Debian or Ubuntu distributions, you can install SBCL from their repositories: just type sudo apt-get install sbcl.

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What flavor of linux?

If you use a popular distribution, e.g., debian, ubuntu, fedora, &c, then sbcl comes prepackaged: aptitude install sbcl or yum install sbcl.

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As it says on SBCL's download page, if you have git access, you can run the command git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/sbcl/sbcl to get the development version to compile from.

To get the binary alone, you may use the following commands depending on your CPU architecture:

x86

wget --trust-server-name http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sbcl/sbcl/1.0.58/sbcl-1.0.58-x86-linux-binary.tar.bz2?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbcl.org%2Fplatform-table.html&ts=1374541378&use_mirror=hivelocity

AMD64 (Note that this is a newer version)

wget --trust-server-name http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sbcl/sbcl/1.1.9/sbcl-1.1.9-x86-64-linux-binary.tar.bz2?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbcl.org%2Fplatform-table.html&ts=1374541416&use_mirror=iweb
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in file which include to archive with sources and named INSTALL we see next text:

end of section 2.1

... Now you should have the same src/runtime/sbcl and output/sbcl.core files that come with the binary distribution, and you can install them as described in the section 1. "BINARY DISTRIBUTION".

the way for you are next:

  1. download sbcl sources using any convenient way for you.

  2. run shell terminal (may be window) and go to the sources archive path

    $ cd /path/to/sbcl-sources.tar.bz2
    $ tar -xjvf sbcl*.tar.bz2
    $ cd sbcl [TAB COMPLETE AND ENTER]
    $ emacs INSTALL

now you will see INSTALL file, which contains installation notes. As we will see in 2.1 section

To build SBCL you need a working toolchain and a Common Lisp system (see section 2.5 "Supported platforms"). You also need approximately 128 Mb of free RAM+swap.

To build SBCL using alredy installed SBCL run

$sh make.sh # may be need execute rights. run 'chmod +x make.sh' and try again

and go next according instruction.

If you don't have existing sbcl instruction said next:

If you don't already have an SBCL binary installed as "sbcl" on your system, you'll need to tell make.sh what Lisp to use as the cross-compilation host. For example, to use CMUCL (assuming has been installed under its default name "lisp") as the cross-compilation host:

$ sh make.sh --xc-host='lisp -batch -noinit'

assuming supported lisp platforms see 2.5 section. Generally, if you attentively read INSTALL file you will able to do it easy and quickly. Have fun and happy new year.