Embeddable Common Lisp, a member of the
KCL Family, is a
Common Lisp implementation initially developed by Giuseppe Attardi, maintained for many years by
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll and currently maintained by
Daniel Kochmański.
ECL is the successor to
EcoLisp).
It is a small but complete implementation which features a very small bytecode interpreter, compilation via C, generation of standalone executables and DLLs, loadable binary files, CLOS, CLX, sockets, and more... The areas that need work are
- improving the extensions
- improving the compiler and the performance
Project page is located at
https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/. ECL runs on
Linux,
FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Windows (Using Mingw and Microsoft Visual C++),
MacOS X/
Darwin (x86 and PPC) and
Solaris (x86 and Sparc). It supports threads on all operating systems. Experimental builds for Android, NaCL and iOS exist.
I compiled it using mingw gcc under win32. threading also works under win32 making it the best free common lisp implementation available on that platform.
There is also a FreeBSD port to install it from and an X-Chat Common Lisp Plugin.
A package for NetBSD is available via pkgsrc.