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Cromulent

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Anyone use Lisp at all on Mac OS X? I'm having a bugger of a time compiling Common Lisp 2.45 and was wondering if there was a good (free) binary distribution? The MacPorts version does not want to work either which is annoying.
 

yeroen

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For the Scheme dialect, there's PLT scheme:

PLT Scheme

Downloading the Dr. Scheme package found there gives you everything you'd want.


For clisp, I couldn't get the Mac Ports version to build the first time. I tried it a second time (as root without sudo'ing..relevant?) and it worked.
 

Cromulent

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DrScheme works nicely but sometimes using their editor sucks. So if you use TextMate or Vim, there is also this compiler for Scheme, http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ and there is also a TextMate bundle for with built in csi commands.

I've got the MIT / GNU Scheme implementation installed. I just wanted a standard common Lisp implementation as well. Looks like Ready Lisp works. Thanks for the help.
 
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