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MacOS

Using the binary

Lem 2.1 was released! It provides binaries for Linux, MacOS and Windows.

How to Fix “App Is Damaged and Can’t Be Opened” on OSX

Copy the app file to the applications folder and type the following in your terminal:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/lem.app

Installation from scratch

Install SBCL and ncurses

brew install sbcl sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_ttf

Install qlot

  • Automatic installer
curl -L https://qlot.tech/installer | bash

For an alternative installation, https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot#installation

Download and build the executable

  • Create the directories
mkdir $HOME/common-lisp
cd $HOME/common-lisp
git clone https://github.com/lem-project/lem.git
cd lem && make sdl2

Add the executable to PATH

  • Copying the PATH to ~/.bashrc
export PATH="$HOME/common-lisp/lem:$PATH"

Keyboard Layout

If your keyboard is a JIS layout, you need to put the following settings in $HOME/.lem/init.lisp

#+lem-sdl2
(lem-sdl2:set-keyboard-layout :jis)