cl-icebox

Cross-Platform GUI framework written in Common Lisp

Abilities:

• Write Cross-Platform GUI application easily in Common Lisp
• Compiles to Linux / macOS / Windows
• Deploy your application in One Single File

Useful Links:

• The Common Lisp Cookbook

  https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/

• LTK: LTK - The Lisp Toolkit

  http://www.peter-herth.de/ltk/

Working Examples:

• cl-pkr Cross-Platform Color Picker Written in Common Lisp

Hacking:

1. Make sure you have SBCL with Quicklisp installed

   • Install a proper SBCL, you can download here
   • Install Quicklisp, you can follow the tutorial here

2. Make sure you have a bin folder and have a proper tclkit inside

   • mkdir -p bin or just right click to create a folder name bin
   • Download yourself a proper tclkit and rename it to tclkit-gui here

3. build your application

   sbcl --disable-debugger --load cl-icebox.asd --eval "(ql:quickload 'cl-icebox)" --eval "(asdf:make :cl-icebox)"
   

Voilà! Check your bin folder for the magic!

What? You use Emacs and SLIME? Great!

Eval (progn (load "cl-icebox.asd") (ql:quickload 'cl-icebox) (setf cl-icebox::*hacking* t)) in your REPL, then you can call (cl-icebox:icebox), have fun!

Deploy:

There's two options:

1. Use Travis CI for the good of your health

   you need to add GITHUB_TOKEN according to uploadtool

2. Use deploy.sh in the root folder

   Run deploy.sh and then check your out folder.

   • Linux and macOS should work out of the box (unless you don't have wget or internet connection).
   • on Windows, you need to have
     • A decent BASH, Git BASH or MSYS2 both should work fine
     • Make sure you have unzip and wget in your BASH.
     • EDITBIN which is part of Build Tools for Visual Studio
       • Find the location of your vcvarsall.bat, then open cmd, and call vcvarsall.bat x64
       • Then, type where editbin, you'll get the absolute path of editbin.exe
       • export EB='C:\long path with space\editbin.exe' in your BASH
       • Now you are blessed to run deploy.sh

Credits

• Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com
• Tcl/Tk
• Tclkit build system http://tclkit.googlecode.com/, forked here
• Resource Hacker
• Warp
• AppImage