Embeddable Common Lisp

Embeddable Common Lisp
Developer(s) Juanjo Garcia-Ripoll
Stable release 11.1.1 / January 16, 2011; 12 months ago (2011-01-16)
Operating system Unix-like, Windows
Type Compiler and runtime
License LGPL
Website http://ecls.sourceforge.net/

Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL) is a LGPL Common Lisp implementation aimed at producing a small-footprint Lisp system that can be embedded into existing C-based applications. It is able to create stand-alone ELF executables from Common Lisp code and runs on most platforms that support a C compiler.

Because it compiles Common Lisp to C, it also features an FFI system, including support for inline C to be used or generated from Common Lisp. Inline C FFI combined with Common Lisp macros and custom SETF expansions yield a compile-time preprocessor.

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