Compile SBCL 2.0.0 under mingw64

I am experimenting with a SBCL compiled for mingw64

I use the Solarian Programmer’s Guide to build SBCL under mingw64. I am building the 2.0.0 from source.

I have MSYS2 installed at C:\devel\msys64 which is /c/devel/msys64 in MSYS2.

I have the binary windows distribution of SBCL 2.0.0 at /c/devel/SBCL_2_0_0-bin and I keep the sources at /c/devel/SBCL_2_0_0-src this includes the source.tar.bz2 the binary msi, as well as the expanded source.

I used these steps at MSYS command line do:

pacman -Syu

Respond Y when asked for confirmation. When the updating is done close the MSYS2 window don’t do an exit.

Restart a MSYS2 shell and do:

pacman -Syu


pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain

pacman -S bzip2

exit

I downloaded the binary sbcl-2.0.0-x86-64-windows.msi to C:\devel\SBCL_2_0_0-src. Next I installed the MSI at C:\devel\SBCL_2_0_0-bin, SBCL was not added to the PATH and SBCL_HOME was not set. I downloaded the raw source sbcl-2.0.0-source.tar.bz2 to C:\devel\SBCL_2_0_0-src.

# SBCL 2.0.0 is used for compile
export PATH=/c/devel/SBCL_2_0_0:$PATH
export SBCL_HOME=/c/devel/SBCL_2_0_0

cd /c/devel/SBCL_2_0_0-src
tar xfj sbcl-2.0.0-source.tar.bz2

# Define GNUMAKE
export GNUMAKE=mingw32-make

# Enter the source directory and make

cd /c/devel/SBCL_2_0_0-src/sbcl-2.0.0
sh make.sh --prefix=/usr/local

# if no errors in build then install.

unset SBCL_HOME
sh install.sh

Use sbcl to start SBCL lisp on the mingw64 bash command line. You cannot launch sbcl directly from the CMD shell.