[Openmcl-devel] TIL how to access command line arguments in a saved application

[Didier Verna]

Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:

> Today I tried this:
>
> [ron at mighty:~]$ ccl
> Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.9-dev-r15341M-trunk  (DarwinX8664)!
> ? (defun foo () (print CCL:*UNPROCESSED-COMMAND-LINE-ARGUMENTS*) (print 'foo))
> FOO
> ? (save-application #P"~/foo" :prepend-kernel t :toplevel-function 'foo)
> [ron at mighty:~]$ ./foo baz bar -- bing boff
>
> NIL 
> FOO 
>
> Not the result I was expecting. So I dug around in the sources and discovered
> that the way to access command line arguments in your own top-level function
> is through the global variable *command-line-argument-list*.

  FWIW, you can look at the CMDLINE function in Clon. It does this for 8
compilers currently.

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