Weblocks: Installation

Getting started

There are several ways to install Common Lisp and Weblocks.

clbuild is the easiest way to get started with Weblocks.

Perform the following steps:

Prepare your clbuild installation as described on the clbuild homepage.
Get SBCL.
- Darwin users: build SBCL from source with thread support.
- GNU/Linux users: install your distribution's SBCL or let clbuild build the latest version from CVS:
```
$ ./clbuild compile-implementation sbcl
```
Use clbuild to install Weblocks and cl-prevalence:
```
$ ./clbuild install weblocks cl-prevalence
```
(note: cl-prevalence is required by the demo)
Run SBCL with clbuild:
```
$ ./clbuild lisp
```

Load the demo:

* (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op 'weblocks-demo)

Start the demo:
```
* (weblocks-demo:start-weblocks-demo :port 3455)
```
(replace 3455 with some port that is currently not in use on your system)
Check out the demo by pointing your browser at
```
http://localhost:3455/weblocks-demo
```
Use the demo as a starting point for your own application or generate a new base application named NAME in an existing directory DIR by issuing
```
* (wop:make-app 'NAME "DIR")
```

Aaron Feng wrote a shell script that lets you start a new Weblocks project from scratch; all you need is an installed SBCL.

We have several Mercurial repositories at Bitbucket.

The two official ones are

weblocks-stable: weblocks-stable, a tree that is synced at stable release points and receives only important bug fixes in between.
weblocks-dev: weblocks-dev, the tree where all the latest action is.