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Thura
Thura

Reputation: 297

How to embed a common lisp interpreter into a gui application

I want to know how to embed a lisp interpreter into a gui application, i.e. something like what pyshell does for Python.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1661

Answers (2)

user122299
user122299

Reputation:

I've had success with GNU Guile, if you're OK with Scheme instead of Common Lisp

Upvotes: 0

Rainer Joswig
Rainer Joswig

Reputation: 139411

Some options:

  1. Write the complete application including the GUI in Lisp: lots of Lisp systems support that
  2. Write the application in Lisp and link C code to it, if you need to call some external GUI libraries: Lisp systems can load and call C (and compatible) libraries.
  3. Embed Lisp into your application: ECL (Embeddable Common Lisp) is an obvious choice. LispWorks (commercial) and Allegro CL (commercial) can deliver Lisp code as shared libraries. You can then load such a shared library into your program.

Upvotes: 19

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