Installing Clozure CL and QuickLisp on CentOS 7

Download Clozure CL

Open up terminal and enter the command: svn co http://svn.clozure.com/publicsvn/openmcl/release/1.11/linuxx86/ccl Where linuxx86 is one of:

• darwinx86
• linuxx86
• freebsdx86
• solarisx86
• windows
• linuxarm

Download and Install QuickLisp

1. Download QuickLisp from https://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
2. Enter the command: ./ccl/lx86cl64 --load /path/to/quicklisp.lisp
3. In the CCL prompt enter: (quicklisp-quickstart:install)(ql:add-to-init-file)

Creating Scripts to Run CCL

1. Edit ./ccl/scripts/ccl and ./ccl/scripts/ccl64 to change CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY=/usr/local/src/ccl line to CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY=~/ccl
2. Copy the scripts to /usr/local/bin directory: sudo cp ./ccl/scripts/ccl* /usr/local/bin/

References

• Linux Format Article
• Clozure CL Official Download Page