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Announcement of ECL
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ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to
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produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies
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to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language.
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The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a lisp to C
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compiler, which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be
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called from C programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone
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executables from your lisp code and can itself be linked to your
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programs as a shared library.
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ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
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Solaris (at least v. 9), Microsoft Windows and OSX, running on top of
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the Intel, Sparc, Alpha and PowerPC processors. Porting to other
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architectures should be rather easy.
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ECL is currently hosted at SourceForge. The home page of the project
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is http://ecls.sourceforge.net, and in it you will find source code
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releases, a CVS tree and some useful documentation.
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Known issues
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* Cygwin's library is still broken: fork/exec fails to reload the
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cygwin library, or ECL's compiled libraries in a completely random
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fashion. For this reason we recommend using ext:system instead of
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ext:run-program in that platform.
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* In Windows ECL comes with bytecodes compiler by default, because C
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compilers are normally not avaiable. Unfortunately several
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libraries out there are not prepared for this. If you plan to use
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quicklisp and have a C compiler accessible to ECL, you may use
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(ext:install-c-compiler) to switch back to the Lisp-to-C compiler.
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15.3.7 changes since 15.2.21
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* autoconf scripts are rewritten to support version 2.69 stack
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* direction is now correctly determined, so gcc 5.x builds should be
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* broken --with-sse=yes configure flag works once again
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* compilation of ECL under MSVC (2008/2010/2012) even with custom
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code pages
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* stable-sort now works as desired
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15.2.21 changes since 13.5.1
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* Features coverity scan model, ffi-unload-module implementation,
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probably more.
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* Build system
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enhancements, parallel builds, fixes, simplifications, cleanups,
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maintenance. minor cleanup, maintenance.
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* Numerous fixes
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Changes since 12.7.1
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====================
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Some highlights of this release are:
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* ECL now ships with the whole of the Unicode names database,
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optimally compressed using constant C tables. This means ECL now
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recognizes all valid Unicode (and ASCII) names for the whole range
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of characters, and can print them as well.
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* ECL has changed the way it stores compiled data in the C files, so
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that it works around the limit of 65k characters per string.
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* ECL now builds with Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2012.
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* We bend the knee and accepted WHILE/IF statements intertwined with
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FOR/AS, though this is still not valid ANSI Common Lisp.
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See file src/CHANGELOG or browse it online
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http://ecls.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ecls/ecl/src/CHANGELOG?view=markup
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