<div>Announcement of ECL</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to</div><div>produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies</div>
<div>to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language.</div><div><br></div><div>The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a lisp to C</div><div>compiler, which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be</div>
<div>called from C programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone</div><div>executables from your lisp code and can itself be linked to your</div><div>programs as a shared library.</div><div><br></div><div>ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,</div>
<div>Solaris (at least v. 9), Microsoft Windows and OSX, running on top of</div><div>the Intel, Sparc, Alpha and PowerPC processors. Porting to other</div><div>architectures should be rather easy.</div><div><br></div><div>
ECL is currently hosted at SourceForge. The home page of the project</div><div>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><br></div><div>Known issues</div><div>============</div><div><br></div><div>* Cygwin's library is still broken: fork/exec fails to reload the</div><div> cygwin library, or ECL's compiled libraries in a completely random</div>
<div> fashion. For this reason we recommend using ext:system instead of</div><div> ext:run-program in that platform.</div><div><br></div><div>* In Windows ECL comes with bytecodes compiler by default, because C</div><div>
compilers are normally not avaiable. Unfortunately several</div><div> libraries out there are not prepared for this. If you plan to use</div><div> quicklisp and have a C compiler accessible to ECL, you may use</div><div>
(ext:install-c-compiler) to switch back to the Lisp-to-C compiler.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Changes since last release</div><div>==========================</div><div><br></div><div>Some highlights of this release are:</div>
<div><br></div><div>* Lots of bugs fixed.</div><div><br></div><div>* The MOP has been fixed to work with the upcoming release of</div><div> Closer-MOP</div><div><br></div><div>* ECL now produces a much more readable C code, with indentation and</div>
<div> more explicit declarations of variables.</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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