The latest version of my favorite Common Lisp environment, SBCL, is out and available at the usual place. If you’re running Linux there’s a binary available, otherwise just grab the source and compile it yourself. Compiling is very easy—just follow the excellent directions. You’ll also need a C compiler and a CL compiler. If this is your first build you can grab one of the older SBCL binaries or use another CL compiler. Again, it’s all explained in the Getting Started page.
For Windows users, there’s a fork that supports threads. This hasn’t been incorporated into the mainline yet so if you need threads on Windows you can use this fork until it gets folded in.
For the rest of us, the update is mostly bug fixes with a couple of enhancements to building the documentation and the Windows port. As usual, my build went without problems. If you’re new to SBCL and running on Windows, see yesterday’s post for a pointer to an excellent article on getting started.