[slime-devel] Installation Slime with OpenMCL

[Edi Weitz]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:58:55 -0400, jsdey at optonline.net wrote:

> (setq inferior-lisp-program
>      "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp")

You're supposed to name a Common Lisp compiler here but you specified
the directory where Emacs stores (some of) its Emacs Lisp files.

SLIME is intended to provide (from within Emacs) an integrated
development environment for Common Lisp systems. Note that Emacs Lisp
(the language most of Emacs is written in) and Common Lisp are two
very different dialects of Lisp.

You should install a Common Lisp compiler first. As you're on OS X you
should try OpenMCL or SBCL, both open source, or a commercial trial
version from Franz or Xanalys. All these should work with SLIME.

  <http://openmcl.clozure.com/>
  <http://sbcl.sf.net/>

HTH,
Edi.