[okra-announce] Okra SBCL & CCL executables for Windows released

Erik Winkels aerique at xs4all.nl
Thu Sep 10 20:22:28 UTC 2009


I've saved executable images of SBCL and CCL on Windows and they're 
available as "okra-20090910.zip" from the Okra project page 
(http://common-lisp.net/project/okra/).

This should make it easier for people on Windows to start playing with 
Okra since it comes with all the necessary libraries.  Just double-click 
okra-sbcl.exe or okra-ccl.exe and you should be looking at a Common Lisp 
REPL with Okra installed.  If you enter:

	(load "examples/flock")

or

	(okra::okra-window)

You should end up with a running demo in the first case and a blank 
window in the second.

You do need to have DirectX installed though, unless you initialise the 
Okra window for OpenGL.

Also this is a first release so there's some warts.  The 
physics-and-input demo doesn't work (and isn't included) since I 
initialised Okra with CEGUI and that clashes.

If you load these executables from your IDE or Slime instead of your 
regular implementation you should make sure the libraries can be found!

Hopefully this makes it easier for people (on Windows for now) to play 
with Okra.




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