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Arguments: &key name ignore-command-line-arguments suppress-allegro-cl-banner
This function saves an image of the currently executing Common Lisp as an image file. This file (which usually has extension .dxl) is not executable, but is suitable as the image argument to the executable files such as mlisp or mlisp8 on Unix machines or mlisp.exe or mlisp8.exe on Windows (and alisp[.exe] or alisp8[.exe]). You can specify the name of the image file created with the name keyword argument. The name defaults to savedcl.dxl. Thus, calling in Lisp
(dumplisp)
will produce an image file savedcl.dxl.This image can be started with the command line (use whichever of m/alisp or m/alisp8 was used to start the image that was dumped):
UNIX 16-bit: mlisp -I <directory containing savedcl.dxl>/savedcl.dxl UNIX 8-bit: mlisp8 -I <directory containing savedcl.dxl>/savedcl.dxl
WINDOWS 16-bit: mlisp.exe -I <directory containing savedcl.dxl>/savedcl.dxl WINDOWS 8bit: mlisp8.exe -I <directory containing savedcl.dxl>/savedcl.dxl
On Windows, .dxl is usually registered as an Allegro CL image
file extension, so double-clicking on it in the File Explorer should
also start Allegro CL with that image. Note too on Windows that if the
image contains the IDE, then adding -f cg:start-ide
to the command line will cause the IDE to be started automatically
when the image starts.
The following table gives brief descriptions of the arguments. See the notes for more information on specific arguments and the warnings that follow the notes. See dumplisp.htm for more information on dumplisp.
Argument |
Value should be: |
Effect |
See |
| name | A string naming a file (default "savedcl.dxl"). Image files must have an extension. The usual extension is dxl but any non-null extension will do. | The dumped image will have this name. If no directory is specified, the file will be written to the current working directory. | Warning 2 |
| ignore-command-line-arguments | t or nil (default nil) |
If true, command-line-arguments are ignored during startup and all arguments are considered application arguments (to command-line-arguments and friends) | Note 2 |
| suppress-allegro-cl-banner | t or
nil (default nil) |
The Allegro CL copyright banner will not be printed on startup. | Note 3 |
Notes:
t, tried to restart actual computational state,
no longer possible); standalone (the separate
executable/image model means an image cannot be standalone).You are allowed to suppress (i.e., not display) the Franz Inc. supplied copyright banner in your application, if and only if you agree to display Franz Inc. copyright and proprietary notices wherever you display your own copyright or other proprietary notices.
Warning: This function depends on the current running Lisp image file to be present and readable (i.e. it cannot be read-protected) and not stripped. Therefore you cannot delete that file before running dumplisp and you cannot specify that file as the value of the name argument.
See also dumplisp.htm, building-images.htm, and delivery.htm.
Copyright (c) 1998-2002, Franz Inc. Oakland, CA., USA. All rights reserved.
Documentation for Allegro CL version 6.2. This page was not revised from the 6.1 page.
Created 2002.2.26.
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