CLiCC
The Common Lisp to C Compiler

Copyright © 1991 - 1996 Wolfgang Goerigk, Ulrich Hoffmann, Heinz Knutzen,
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.

Copyright © 2003 Julian Stecklina

• Preface
• Present status
• Getting CLiCC
• What needs to be done

Preface

Lots of software is rotting in some archives nobody is looking at anymore. Pearls of programming effort are getting more and more outdated every day, as their implementation language and their host operating system subtly changes. CLiCC belongs to this group, for it is obviously abandoned since 1996 and silently broke on recent Common Lisp compilers. The original CLiCC homepage can still be found at http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~wg/clicc.html. Please direct your browser there to get detailed information about the Common Lisp to C Compiler.

Present status

• I removed the deprecated usage of REQUIRE/PROVIDE to load and compile and replaced it by MK:DEFSYSTEM which is maintained in the Common Lisp Open Code Collection. MK:DEFSYSTEM is a means to portably describe file dependencies in order to properly compile complex software much like "make" does for C programs. This has on the other hand a serious disadvantage for now: CLiCC is at the moment unable to compile itself, as it does not know of this change yet and still relies on REQUIRE/PROVIDE. In theory you could use the current version of CLiCC to compile the 0.6.5-Beta sources which should compile fine.
• Leftovers from the dark past working around compiler oddities (a CMU CL 17f bug) are removed. You should update to a half-way recent version of CMU CL, if you are affected.
• Any documentation is more or less out of date.

Getting CLiCC

Look for file releases (non in sight, though) and information about CVS access on our SourceForge project page.

What needs to be done

• A lot. If you really are interested, look at TODO in the CLiCC CVS tree.