Lispbuilder

Lispbuilder, or Common Lisp Application Builder, is an umbrella project that provides cross-platform packages for building large, interactive applications in Common Lisp. The most notable of these is lispbuilder-sdl, a wrapper for SDL, a library commonly used for game development. Other packages provide 3D graphics and animation, networking, text processing, and other miscellaneous functionality.

Links

• Wiki
• Download & Install
• Screenshots
• Documentation
  • User Guide
  • API Reference Manual
  • How-To's
• Community
• License
• Contributors

Quickstart for Ubuntu

Assuming you have a Common Lisp implementation with Quicklisp installed, run the following to install and run a lispbuilder-sdl example.

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
$ sbcl # or your own Lisp
* (ql:quickload :lispbuilder-sdl-examples)
* (sdl-examples:mandelbrot)

Packages

All packages can be installed with Quicklisp. Dependencies which are C/C++ libraries must be installed separately.

Game and Multimedia Development

• lispbuilder-sdl: SDL game and multimedia library.
  • Straightforward event loop, supporting either event polling or event waiting,
  • Many graphics drawing primitives,
  • Bitmap and vector graphic support,
  • Load diverse image types,
  • Play samples and stream music including mp3 and OGG,
  • Bitmap and True type font support.
• lispbuilder-openrm: OpenRM 3d scene graph
• lispbuilder-cal3d: Cal3d character animation
• lispbuilder-opengl: deprecated, use cl-opengl instead
  • Note: OpenGL by itself does not provide windowing support; lispbuilder-sdl can be used with cl-opengl to provide windowing support for OpenGL

Text Processing

• lispbuilder-regex: Regular expression support
• lispbuilder-clawk: Awk in CL
• lispbuilder-lexer: Lex in CL
• lispbuilder-yacc: Yacc in CL

Networking

• lispbuilder-net: deprecated, use usocket instead

Windows

• lispbuilder-windows: windows.h wrapper