earl-ducaine / lispbuilder

Lispbuilder provides a range of libraries for developing useful portable Common Lisp applications

Lispbuilder

Provides several useful cross-platform packages for Common Lisp

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Introduction

Lispbuilder, or Common Lisp Application Builder, is an umbrella project that provides cross-platform packages for building large, interactive applications in Common Lisp. The most notable of these is Lispbuilder-SDL, a wrapper for SDL, a library commonly used for game development. Other packages provide 3D graphics and animation, networking, text processing, and other miscellaneous functionality.

Game and Multimedia Development

• lispbuilder-sdl: SDL game and multimedia library.
  • Straightforward event loop, supporting either event polling or event waiting,
  • Many graphics drawing primitives,
  • Bitmap and vector graphic support,
  • Load diverse image types,
  • Play samples and stream music including mp3 and OGG,
  • Bitmap and True type font support.
• lispbuilder-opengl: OpenGL 3d graphics
• lispbuilder-openrm: OpenRM 3d scene graph
• lispbuilder-cal3d: Cal3d character animation

Text Processing

• lispbuilder-regex: Regular expression support
• lispbuilder-clawk: Awk in CL
• lispbuilder-lexer: Lex in CL
• lispbuilder-yacc: Yacc in CL

Networking

• lispbuilder-net

Windows

• lispbuilder-windows (windows.h wrapper)