Question

I tried the following:

$ cat args.sh
\#! /Applications/ccl/dx86cl64
(format t "~&~S~&" *args*)

$ ./args.sh 

Couldn’t load lisp heap image from ./args.sh

I can run lisp fine directly:

$ /Applications/ccl/dx86cl64
Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.5-r13651  (DarwinX8664)!

? 

Is it possible to write a shell script to run lisp code with Clozure CL? I am sure I am doing something silly.

I installed it from: http://openmcl.clozure.com/

Answer 1

Just following up on Charlie Martin’s answer and on your subsequent question. The dx86cl64 --eval <code> will fire up a REPL, so if you want to fire up a given script then quit, just add this to the end of your script: (ccl::quit). In the example you provided, this would do the trick:

#! /bin/bash 
exec /Applications/ccl/dx86cl64 --eval '(progn (format t "hello script") (ccl::quit))'

A nicer script would be the following:

#! /bin/bash
exec /Applications/ccl/dx86cl64 -b -e '(progn (load "'$1'") (ccl::quit))'

Put that into a file, load-ccl-script.sh (or other name of your choice). Then the following interaction works:

$ echo '(format t "weeee!")' > a.lisp
$ sh load-ccl-script.sh a.lisp
weeee!
$ _