Examples and recipes

Start with Your first program. It takes you through running Lisp, defining a function, and passing arguments to a script.

Build and run

• Build from source on x86-64 Linux.
• Load an ASDF system from a local project.
• Save an executable with your application loaded.
• Build for another platform using Fedora target packages.
• Build an Android app using the EGL project template.

Look things up

The reference covers the command line, platform support, saved images, operating-system interface, and Android projects.

Understand the runtime

Read How Lisp runs for the interpreter, compiler tiers, and on-stack replacement. Images and applications explains what is saved and why target selection happens before image creation.