What is Ready Lisp? It’s a binding together of several popular Lisp packages for OS X, including: Aquamacs, SBCL and SLIME. Once downloaded, you’ll have a single application bundle which you can double-click — and find yourself in a fully configured Common Lisp REPL. It’s ideal for OS X users who want to try out Lisp with a minimum of hassle. The download is approximately 73 megabytes.
It works fine. But doesn't have sb-threads enabled so, at best you can use it for fun or development. Webservers like hunchentoot will give errors if you open a second request at the same time.
The way to fix this is, to do a which sbcl to find out where it's installed for me it was in /opt/local/ then download the source from http://www.sbcl.org
In the sbcl folder create a file called customize-target-features.lisp and put the following code in it...
(lambda (features)
(flet ((enable (x)
(pushnew x features))
(disable (x)
(setf features (remove x features))))
;;; Threading support, available only on x86/x86-64 Linux, x86 Solaris
;;; and x86 Mac OS X (experimental).
(enable :sb-thread)))
now sh make.sh
and then export INSTALL_ROOT=/opt/local/
and sudo sh install.sh
Try sbcl
if you get an error that it can't find the core
then copy the core in output folder in sbcl to where it says it can't find sbcl.core
that'll give you sbcl with threads on macosx and Aquamacs that loads it in a fraction of a second.
What is Ready Lisp? It’s a binding together of several popular Lisp packages for OS X, including: Aquamacs, SBCL and SLIME. Once downloaded, you’ll have a single application bundle which you can double-click — and find yourself in a fully configured Common Lisp REPL. It’s ideal for OS X users who want to try out Lisp with a minimum of hassle. The download is approximately 73 megabytes.