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Cross-Compiling Common Lisp for Windows


Table of Contents I recently enabled Windows support for my Raylib bindings library and a game of mine that uses it, Aero Fighter. The process was surprisingly smooth.

I recently enabled Windows support for my Raylib bindings library and a game of mine that uses it, Aero Fighter. vend is a dependency manager for Common Lisp, and luckily it helps us simplify our Windows setup, since we don't need to bother with a Quicklisp installation within Wine. Note that Core Compression doesn't seem to be available for Windows, so the resulting binary will be quite a bit larger than its Linux one (~4x in the case of Aero Fighter, 11mb -> 40mb.

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