Aquamacs osx for mac os x#

If you have a folder called 'Developer', you're good to go and can jump to the next step. To find this out, take a look at your main hard drive.

Aquamacs osx for mac os x#

The first thing you'll need to do is make sure you have the Developer Tools for Mac OS X installed. Here are more detailed instructions on installing SBCL and related tools on an Intel Mac. On the Mac, the Aquamacs Emacs comes with Slime already installed so that's convenient: Oh, and people who use the free Lisps almost all use SLIME on Emacs for an IDE. So it doesn't run on any 'Core Duo' Apple machines sold between about January and August this past year, nor the current line of MacBook and Mac mini, but it WILL work fine on the 'Core 2 Duo' machines. OpenMCL will run on the older (pre-2006) PPC-based Macs and the latest 64-bit Intel-based Macs, but NOT on the 32-bit Intel Macs. SBCL will run on basically any machine and OS. SBCL stands for Steel Bank Common Lisp - it's based on the older Carnegie Mellon Common Lisp. OpenMCL: a free clone of MCL for Mac and Linux.There are several free (as in beer and speech) Lisp implementations also. However, MCL doesn't run on the newer Intel-based Macs. You can get MCL (Macintosh Common Lisp) from MyAndrew - this is another commercial/expensive Lisp. This info only applies to running Common Lisp on new Intel Macs:Īllegro has a Mac version, but CMU only licenses the Windows version.