Cross-compiling with SBCL

Question

I have SBCL running on a Ubuntu machine. I want to write a little program that I want to give to a friend who has only Windows running. What is the quickest way to cross-compile it on my machine into a "standalone" windows program (i.e. the usual runtime+core combination)?

Answer 1

SBCL is able to do a cross-compilation, but due to code being evaluated during the process, you need access to the target architecture. SBCL's build processed is well explained by Christophe Rhodes in SBCL: a Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp .

If you don't have directly access to a Windows machine, I suppose you could give a try to Wine (I would expect this to fail) or ReactOS inside either an emulator or hypervisor (QEMU, HVM, Xen, you name it...).