Re: Simple Instructions/packages for Installing SBCL/Emacs/Slime ???

For macOS my recommendation is just to do "brew install sbcl", and for
windows, just get the .msi installer.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM Scott E. Fahlman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello to the SBCL maintainers and community!
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> Hello SBCL Helpers,
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> First I would like to thank all of you who have kept SBCL alive and up to date in recent years, and who have ported it to new machine architectures and OS releases.
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> I'm a Professor Emeritus of CS at Carnegie Mellon University.  That means that I'm formally retired, but still working on AI research -- mostly focused on symbolic AI, as opposed to the currently-popular wave of statistical/numerical Deep Learning and Large Language Models.
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> I was one of the core designers of the Common Lisp language back in the 1980s (one of the "Gang of Five").  My research group at Carnegie Mellon produced the CMU Common Lisp implementation from which the open-source CMUCL and SBCL implementations are descended.  From about 1990 on, I've been mostly a user of Common Lisp, and not involved in the ongoing open-source development of CL implementations.  So I'm not up to date on what the SBCL community has been up to -- I'm just happy to be able to use SBCL for my own AI research.
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> For some years I've been working on a symbolic knowledge-base system called Scone, which is implemented in SBCL.  I've been working on a book on Scone and "Knowledge-Based AI".  When the book is released I want people to be able to experiment with the open-source Scone code with as little hassle as possible.
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> I expect that most of the user community will be running on Mac with Apple silicon (ARM64) and on Windows machines running on the latest Intel chips.  I think that the number of Linux users (and people comfortable with Linux shell hackery) will be much smaller.
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> So as part of the Scone release, I would like to provide a clear, uncomplicated set of instructions for setting up an up-to-date Emacs/Slime/SBCL environment on current MacOS systems, and a separate script for setting this up on Windows.  The "Getting Started" page on SBCL SourceForge is more complicated than necessary for this task, and contains some Linux shell hackery that may be intimidating.   If necessary, I can play around with some installations and produce these scripts -- or, at least, the one for MacOS -- but it would save me time if someone already has done this.  Any help would be appreciated -- and probably would be useful to others as well.
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> (In recent years I have just relied on the Portacle package for easy installation of an Emacs/Slime/SBCL environment.  Sadly, Portacle is no longer being maintained, and the old versions are now quite out of date -- no version with recent Apple Silicon components, for example.)
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> Many thanks,
> Scott E. Fahlman
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