Compiling the Lisp Code

The tools directory contains various lisp and C-shell utilities for building CMU CL:

compile-all*: Will compile lisp files and build a kernel core. It has numerous command-line options to control what to compile and how. Try -help to see a description. It runs a separate Lisp process to compile each subsystem. Error output is generated in files with “.log” extension in the root of the build area.
setup.lisp: Some lisp utilities used for compiling changed files in batch mode and collecting the error output. Sort of a crude defsystem. Loads into the “user” package. See with-compiler-log-file and comf.
foocom.lisp: Each system has a “.lisp” file in tools/ which compiles that system.