The various Lispbuilder libraries depend on their respective C counterparts:

• lispbuilder-sdl depends on SDL
• lispbuilder-sdl-gfx depends on SDL_gfx
• lispbuilder-sdl-image depends on SDL_image
• lispbuilder-sdl-mixer depends on SDL_mixer
• lispbuilder-sdl-ttf depends on SDL_ttf

Note: Currently lispbuilder-sdl only supports SDL 1.2. For SDL 2.0 support, see e.g. cl-sdl2.

Detailed instructions for Windows and macOS, Linux and BSD describe OS-specific issues.

All packages can be installed with Quicklisp. For example:

(ql:quickload :lispbuilder-sdl-examples)
(sdl-examples:mandelbrot)

Lispbuilder should be compatible with all modern Common Lisp implementations. Lispbuilder has been tested with SBCL, Clozure CL, CMUCL, CLISP, ECL, Lispworks, and Allegro.

If you are new to Common Lisp and don't know which implementation to choose, try SBCL. All the implementations above are good choices, but SBCL has a particularly active community.

Note: Clozure CL on macOS requires a single-threaded build to avoid thread safety issues with Cocoa.