Release 2024-04 based on SBCL 2.4.3

This new release contains minor changes:

• Update to SBCL 2.4.3 (including new parallel garbage collector from SBCL 2.4.0)
• The examples have been updated

Release based on SBCL 2.2.8

This new release contains minor changes:

• Update SBCL to 2.2.8
• The examples have been updated

Zip and 7zip files are provided, but 7zip is recommended because the compression is better.

Release with improved performances

This new release contains major changes:

• plain-common-lisp is now a portable application: it can be executed from any location on the disk
• Improved Quicklisp integration: 10% faster startup time
• plain-common-lisp is now released with a code snippets document
• The documentation has been updated to reflect the changes
• The examples have been updated

Zip and 7zip files are provided, but 7zip is recommended because the compression is better.

New release with examples

This new release contains minor changes:

• One compilation warning has been removed
• 8 examples are now available, ready to be compiled and executed
• The documentation has been updated to reflect the changes

zip and 7zip files are provided, but I recommend 7zip as the compression is better.

Third release based on SBCL 2.2.7

This new release contains important changes:

• Upgraded to SBCL 2.2.7
• sbcl.exe now includes a manifest allowing for GUI to enable Windows Visual Styles
• plain-common-lisp behave much better for finding DLLs files from standalone executable files (save-lisp-and-die)
• API change: the ASDF systems are now located in a directory named "systems" instead of "sources"
• The documentation has been updated to reflect the changes

Second public release upgraded to SBCL 2.2.6

This new release contains important changes:

• Upgraded to SBCL 2.2.6, allowing to generate smaller executable files with a fast boot time (zstd)
• plain-common-lisp behave much better for finding DLLs files from generated executable file (save-lisp-and-die)
• SLIME installation has been documented

Initial public release

This is the first public release of plain-common-lisp, a portable distribution of SBCL for Windows.

• Download the archive
• Extract somewhere
• Done: you have a REPL with Quicklisp!