[Gardeners] CLISP in one EXE file and without console window for Windows

[Ignas Mikalajunas]

> For more professional looking applications, I've patched CLISP to allow
> linking the memfile to the exe file and starting it without a console, see
>
> http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/clisp.html
>
> I've proposed this to the CLISP mailing list for include in the next CLISP
> release.
>
> I think instead of using wxCL it would be interesting to use the low-level
> Windows GDI functions and built some framework on top of this. This has the
> advantage that you can use every Windows API function, if you like. The
> same could be done for Carbon on MacOS X and X11 for Linux. Then you have
> the ability to write native applications, which are very close to the
> system.
>
> The API above the system-level could be something like wxCL, but in pure
> Lisp. Then it is easy to write starter-kits like Dr Scheme, with rich
> libraries and GUI capabilities, see e.g. http://tinyurl.com/9htgs
>
  Nice thingie, sad that it doesn't really work with CFFI.
FFI::FOREIGN-CALL-OUT just barfs something about foreign pointers
comming from a previous lisp session. Can really advanced FFI stuff
(callbacks, multiple libraries loaded when compiling etc.) be saved in
memory image at all?

   Ignas Mikalajunas