Compatibility

Lisp Implementation	Win32	Linux	OS X	BSD	Comments
SBCL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Win32 version is single threaded.
Lispworks	Yes	Yes	Yes	??
Allegro	Yes	Yes	Yes	??
CMUCL	NA	Yes	??	??
CLISP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clozure CL	Yes	Yes	Yes`*`	??	`*`CCL on OS X requires a single-threaded build in order to avoid thread safety issues with Cocoa.
ECL	Yes	Yes	No	??	ECL (CVS as of 2009-08-14) compiles on MinGW. ECL on OS X breaks in cocoahelper.

Download & Installation for Windows

For newbies, Lispworks with the Lisp Starter Pack is suggested.

See Windows Installation for guides to installing other Lisp implementations.

Download & Installation for OS X, Linux and BSD

The LISPBUILDER-SDL packages rely on several external dynamic linked libraries that are not included as part of the LISPBUILDER-SDL distribution. These libraries must be installed prior to loading any of the LISPBUILDER-SDL packages. Additional information on the dependencies for a package as well as the download & installation procedures are are described here.

Comment by archj...@gmail.com, Aug 6, 2009

re: ECL (CVS as of 2009-08-04) compiles on MinGW but fails to load Alexandria. with MSVS Alexandria work (use this solution: http://avodonosov.blogspot.com/2008/12/hunchentoot-on-ecl.html)

Comment by project member elliotts...@gmail.com, Aug 28, 2009

ECL 9.8.4 should work fine. I believe the issue was spaces in the build path. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.ecl.general/5508/focus=5566

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