• Supported Tags
  • Simple Tags
  • Shared Tags
• Quick Reference
• What is CLISP?
• How to use this image
  • Create a Dockerfile in your CLISP project
  • Run a single Common Lisp script
  • Developing using SLIME
• Image variants
  • clfoundation/clisp:<version>
• License

Supported Tags

Simple Tags

• 2.49.92-busterbuster
• 2.49.92-stretchstretch

Shared Tags

• latest, 2.49.92
  • 2.49.92-buster

Quick Reference

• CLISP Home Page:https://clisp.sourceforge.io/⁠
• Where to file Docker image related issues:https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cl-docker-images/clisp⁠
• Where to file issues for CLISP itself:https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp/⁠
• Maintained by:CL Docker Images Project⁠
• Supported platforms:linux/amd64, linux/arm64/v8, linux/arm/v7

What is CLISP?

From CLISP's Home Page⁠:

How to use this image

Create a Dockerfile in your CLISP project

FROM clfoundation/clisp:latest
COPY . /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
CMD [ "clisp", "-c", "-l", "./your-daemon-or-script.lisp" ]

You can then build and run the Docker image:

$ docker build -t my-clisp-app
$ docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-clisp-app

Run a single Common Lisp script

For many simple, single file projects, you may find it inconvenient to write a complete Dockerfile. In such cases, you can run a Lisp script by using the CLISP Docker image directly:

$ docker run -it --rm --name my-running-script -v "$PWD":/usr/src/app -w /usr/src/app clfoundation/clisp:latest clisp -c -l ./your-daemon-or-script.lisp

Developing using SLIME

SLIME⁠ provides a convenient and fun environment for hacking on Common Lisp. To develop using SLIME, first start the Swank server in a container:

$ docker run -it --rm --name clisp-slime -p 127.0.0.1:4005:4005 -v /path/to/slime:/usr/src/slime -v "$PWD":/usr/src/app -w /usr/src/app clfoundation/clisp:latest clisp -x "(load /usr/src/slime/swank-loader.lisp)" -x '(swank-loader:init)' -x '(swank:create-server :dont-close t :interface "0.0.0.0")'

Then, in an Emacs instance with slime loaded, type:

M-x slime-connect RET RET RET

Image variants

This image comes in several variants, each designed for a specific use case.

clfoundation/clisp:<version>

This is the defacto image. If you are unsure about what your needs are, you probably want to use this one. It is designed to be used both as a throw away container (mount your source code and start the container to start your app), as well as the base to build other images off of. Additionally, these images contain the CLISP source code (at /usr/local/src/clisp) to help facilitate interactive development and exploration (a hallmark of Common Lisp!).

Some of these tags may have names like buster or stretch in them. These are the suite code names for releases of Debian and indicate which release the image is based on. If your image needs to install any additional packages beyond what comes with the image, you'll likely want to specify one of these explicitly to minimize breakage when there are new releases of Debian.

These images are built off the buildpack-deps image. It, by design, has a large number of extremely common Debian packages.

These images contain the Quicklisp installer, located at /usr/local/share/common-lisp/source/quicklisp/quicklisp.lisp. Additionally, there is a script at /usr/local/bin/install-quicklisp that will use the bundled installer to install Quicklisp. You can configure the Quicklisp install with the following environment variables:

• QUICKLISP_DIST_VERSION: The dist version to use. Of the form yyyy-mm-dd. latest means to install the latest version (the default).
• QUICKLISP_CLIENT_VERSION: The client version to use. Of the form yyyy-mm-dd. latest means to install the latest version (the default).
• QUICKLISP_ADD_TO_INIT_FILE: If set to true, (ql:add-to-init-file) is used to add code to the implementation's user init file to load Quicklisp on startup. Not set by default.

Additionally, these images contain cl-launch to provide a uniform interface to running a Lisp implementation without caring exactly which implementation is being used (for instance to have uniform CI scripts).

License

CLISP is licensed under the GPLv2. See CLISP's COPYRIGHT⁠ file for more info.

The Dockerfiles used to build the images are licensed under BSD-2-Clause.

As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).

As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.