Download & Install

Binary packages

We provide binary packages for Windows, MacOS (ARM and Intel), and Linux based on SBCL:

SBCL builds

Allegro builds have been discontinued.

Previous releases

Consult the following directories for previous releases: 1.6.0, 1.5.9, 1.5.8, 1.5.7, 1.5.6, 1.5.5, 1.5.4, 1.5.3, 1.5.2, 1.5.1, 1.6.0, 1.6.1.

Installation instructions for the binary distribution

Windows

Obtain the above zip file, and unpack it. Double-click on CafeOBJ.exe in the unpacked directory.

Mac/Linux

The above binary distributions are conforming to GNU standards, that is contain directories bin, lib, and share. You can either unpack them into /usr/local by

cd /usr/local
tar -xvzf /cafeobj-VERSION-LISP-ARCH.tar.gz

and get going, or, if you prefer to have separation, install it into /opt/cafeobj and add /opt/cafeobj/bin to the PATH.

Distributions

Debian and Ubuntu

Debian and Ubuntu builds have been discontinued due to lack of maintainer.

Homebrew

CafeOBJ is included in the homebrew (and linuxbrew) distribution and can be installed using brew as below. Requirements are that XCode and the XCode Command Line Tools are installed.

brew install cafeobj

Macports

For now one needs to add an entry to the MacPorts sources.conf to be able to install CafeOBJ via ports. Necessary steps:

  • Add the following line to your MacPorts sources.conf, which usually resides in /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf: 
    http://cafeobj.org/macport/ports.tar.gz
  • After that, call the following two commands (as root or with sudo), the first syncronizing the ports, the second one installing CafeOBJ: 
    port sync
port install cafeobj

Other distributions

Unknown.

Source package

CafeOBJ interpreter uses Common Lisp as a underlying implementation language, and can be built on one of the following platforms:

All of these Lisp systems are freely available except Allegro CL.

For more information on building see INSTALL in the source distribution.

Sources of the recent releases:

Issues

Please use the Github Issue tracker to report bugs, issues, including wishlist items and suggestions for improvement.

Multi-build installation

The wrapper script allows starting CafeOBJ with different interpreters. That means if you have installed both the sbcl and acl variant, you can run cafeobj --engine acl or cafeobj --engine sbcl to select the engine. Note, if you use the above binary distribution tarballs, the last one unpacked will determine the default engine.

The wrapper has also a command line option --list-engines that lists all available dumps.

git repository

Development is done on Github https://github.com/CafeOBJ/cafeobj

Emacs mode for CafeOBJ

The source code contains an Emacs support file for editing and interaction with the CafeOBJ interpreter. The file can also be downloaded from here: cafeobj-mode.el.

Instruction on howto setup this mode can be found in the file itself.

License

CafeOBJ is provided free of charge under the terms of the BSD license, details can be found in the source distribution in the file COPYING. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY of FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.