[Openmcl-devel] Cocoa bindings only (without IDE)?

[R. Matthew Emerson]

> On Dec 17, 2016, at 7:15 AM, Robin Allen <r at foon.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m using CCL’s Cocoa bindings to develop a GUI program on OSX. It’s all going well, but I wonder:
> 
> When you (require ‘cocoa), this not only makes the Cocoa bindings available, but also starts up Clozure’s IDE and pulls in a lot of packages. These
> packages all stick around in the image saved by BUILD-APPLICATION, but I don’t need any of them.
> 
> I’m not using the IDE and I’d rather not have to load it unnecessarily. All I need are the Cocoa bindings. Is there a way to just load the Cocoa bindings
> without also loading Hemlock, Inspector, the listener window, etc.?


You could look at https://github.com/Clozure/dpf

A lot could be better about it, but it does show how you can get a Cocoa application going without the involvement of the IDE.