Clozure CL on Mac OS X: get rid of the GUI?

Question

I want to run a CCL REPL from a command line. What should I do to prevent CCL from starting that GUI thing (the menu and the listener window)? Thanks.

Prinz

Answer 1

Homebrew has a recipe for Clozure CL, and will set up everything like you'd expect.

$ brew install clozure-cl

Now type ccl or ccl64 at the command line.

Presidium

brew doesn't find 'clozure-cl'. Is it removed from repo? – Anastatius

Yes, it appears so. You can install a local recipe from the archived, original formula, or better yet, become the new maintainer. github.com/jf/homebrew/blob/… – Presidium

I'd like to try maintaining. How can I become a homebrew ccl maintainer? – Anastatius

Answer 2

After I dug around in Applications/CCL, I found this:

username@computer:/Applications/CCL
$ ./dx86cl64 
Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.7  (DarwinX8664)!
? 

Encasement

Unfortunately this didn't help -- the listener window still pops up – Prinz

@MikeIvanov: Not for me? :-) I didn't install from the App Store. – Encasement

Answer 3

Here is a solution.

Originally I installed CCL the "Mac way" - from the App Store (silly me). Regardless of how I called dx86cl64 it always opened a listener window.

I removed the app, downloaded ftp://clozure.com/pub/release/1.7/ccl-1.7-darwinx86.tar.gz and unpacked it under /opt/ccl-1.7. Then I created ~/bin/ccl with this content:

#!/bin/sh
exec "/opt/ccl-1.7/dx86cl64" -K utf-8 $*

Problem solved.

Prinz