<div>Announcement of ECL</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to produce an</div><div>implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI X3J13</div>
<div>definition of the language.</div><div><br></div><div>The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a lisp to C compiler,</div><div>which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be called from C</div>
<div>programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone executables from your lisp</div><div>code and can itself be linked to your programs as a shared library.</div><div><br></div><div>ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (at</div>
<div>least v. 9), Microsoft Windows and OSX, running on top of the Intel, Sparc,</div><div>Alpha and PowerPC processors. Porting to other architectures should be rather</div><div>easy.</div><div><br></div><div>ECL is currently hosted at Common-Lisp.net and SourceForge. The home page of</div>
<div>the project is <a href="http://ecls.sourceforge.net">http://ecls.sourceforge.net</a>, and in it you will find source code</div><div>releases, a CVS tree and some useful documentation.</div><div><br></div><div>Known issues</div>
<div>============</div><div><br></div><div>- The Mingw port does not work with the stable version of the Boehm-Weiser</div><div> garbage collector. Users will have to download a more recent version and</div><div> build and install it in an accessible location for ECL to compile.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- The OpenBSD port does not support multithreaded builds because the latest</div><div> stable version that runs on it does not contain all the required</div><div> functionality.</div><div><br></div><div>
Changes since last release</div><div>==========================</div><div><br></div><div>See file src/CHANGELOG or browse it online</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ecls.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ecls/ecl/src/CHANGELOG?view=markup">http://ecls.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ecls/ecl/src/CHANGELOG?view=markup</a></div>
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