ECL-CONFIG(1)

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💅 ecl-config — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is ecl-config, from the General Commands Manual (yes that's the manual name, she's official 💖). It's the little helper that tells you what flags you need to build stuff that embeds Embeddable Common Lisp. Like, ECL but make it embeddable. iykyk.

🌸 NAME 🌸

ecl-config — Embeddable Common Lisp configuration query 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ecl-config [-cflags] [-libs] [-ldflags] [ LIBS]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically, ecl-config prints stuff to standard output — and that stuff is the set of compiler or linker flags you need to actually build applications that embed ecl. That's it. That's the whole job. She's a one-trick pony and she ate 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -cflags — spits out the flags you need to compile a C/C++ file. compiler girlies rise 🫶
  • -libs — okay bestie, real talk, this one is listed with no description in the original. She's just there. Mystery icon 💀
  • -ldflags — returns the linker flags required to build a C/C++ application or shared library. link it up 🔥
  • LIBS — when you're also using -ldflags, this also adds the cmp (compiler) library. periodt ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

Probably some. Report them! 😭 (fr fr, that's the whole bug section, not me being shady — the manpage really said "probably some" and dipped 🙈)

lowkey iconic that the bug report section is just vibes and honesty. no cap.

okay that's the whole page bestie, go build something cute that embeds a lisp 🧚

this was ECL-CONFIG(1), dated 2013-06-09, so yeah she's been serving these flags since forever 🌈 mwah, bye 💜

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