Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL)

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ABCL — Common Lisp on the JVM

Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) is a full implementation of the Common Lisp language featuring both an interpreter and a compiler, running in the JVM. Originally started to be a scripting language for the J editor, it now supports JSR-223 (Java scripting API): it can be a scripting engine in any Java application. Additionally, it can be used to implement (parts of) the application using Java to Lisp integration APIs.

Users (development with ABCL) Developers (development of ABCL)

• Frequently Asked Questions
• abcl-dev on blogspot
• @armedbear on Twitter.
• Introduction: building & running
• Documentation
• Examples
• Testimonials
• Bug reporting

• IRC libera.chat #abcl [Chat | View]
• Mailing list
• Source code
• Technical wiki
• Open issues [ Trac | Github ]
• Contributing

System requirements (Users) System requirements (Developers)

Supported Java Runtimes

• Oracle Java SE 8
• Oracle Java SE 11
• OpenJDK 17

Running on one of the explictly supported platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS X, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris or Google App Engine

Supported Java build platforms

• openjdk8
• openjdk11
• OpenJDK 17

And

• A copy of Apache Ant version 1.7.1 or higher.

Licensing

The use of Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) is covered by the GNU General Public License with Classpath exception, meaning that you can use ABCL in your application without the requirement to open the sources to your application.