Compiling Common Lisp to an executable

Question

I recently started learning Common Lisp using SBCL. How can I compile my Lisp programs into a Windows binary?

Answer 1

Making hello.exe:

* (defun main () (print "hello"))

MAIN
* (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die "hello.exe" :toplevel #'main :executable t)
[undoing binding stack and other enclosing state... done]
[saving current Lisp image into hello.exe:
writing 3160 bytes from the read-only space at 0x22000000
writing 2592 bytes from the static space at 0x22100000
writing 30134272 bytes from the dynamic space at 0x22300000
done]
> dir hello.exe
31,457,304 hello.exe
> hello.exe

"hello"

31 MB executable file!

Answer 2

Use SB-EXT:SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE. See http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Saving-a-Core-Image for details.

Answer 3

There're several tools to do it. You can start with Buildapp.

Answer 4

(defun main ()
    (format t "Hello, world!~%"))

(sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die "hello-world.exe"
:executable t
:toplevel 'main)