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9.3.2 Configuration files available

There are four sample configuration files in LispWorks library containing settings you can change in order to configure images:

config/configure.lisp is preloaded into the image before it is shipped. It contains settings governing fundamental issues like where to find the LispWorks runtime folder structure, and so on. You can override these settings in your saved image or in your initialization file. You should read through configure.lisp .

config/siteinit.lisp contains any forms that are appropriate to the whole site but which are to be loaded afresh each time the image is started. The sample siteinit.lisp file distributed with LispWorks contains only the form:

(load-all-patches)

On startup, the image loads siteinit.lisp and your initialization file, in that order. The command line options -siteinit and -init can be used to specify loading of different files or to suppress them altogether. See the example in Saving and testing the configured image, below, and Initializing LispWorks for further details.

private-patches/load.lisp is loaded by load-all-patches , and should contain forms to load any private (named) patches that Lisp Support might send you.

config/a-dot-lispworks.lisp is a sample personal initialization file. You might like to copy this into a file ~/.lispworks in your home directory and edit it to create your own initialization file.

Both configure.lisp and a-dot-lispworks.lisp are preloaded into the image before it is shipped, so if you are happy with the settings in these files, you need not change them. See the example in Saving and testing the configured image, below, and Initializing LispWorks for further details.


LispWorks Release Notes and Installation Guide - 18 Mar 2008

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