Function Entry: CLAL-COMPILE-SYSTEM

clal-compile-system

clautolisp Extension Function

(clal-compile-system output-file source-files)

• output-file — a string naming the artefact. Required: there is no sensible default name for one built from several sources.
• source-files — a proper list of strings naming AutoLISP source files, each resolved the way load resolves its argument.

Compile several source files into ONE .lap application.

What this adds over calling clal-compile-file on each source is that all of them go through a single host compilation: literals can be coalesced across the whole system, and a function defined in a later file and called from an earlier one resolves without a warning at every forward reference. A system that did not share one compilation would be a loop the caller could write, so this one always shares it.

T when the artefact was written; nil when a source could not be located (with errno 73) or the host compiler failed.

Writes the artefact. Does not define anything in the calling image.

Signals :bad-argument when output-file is nil or source-files is empty, :compiler-not-available in a build without the compiler, and from require-proper-list when source-files is not a proper list.

(clal-compile-system "myapp.lap" '("geometry.lsp" "commands.lsp"))
=> T
(load "myapp.lap")

• clautolisp: since 2.0.9; writes a .lap since 2.0.10.
• AutoCAD: NOT present (the analogue is the Make Application wizard, producing .vlx).
• BricsCAD: NOT present (the analogue is DEScoder, producing .des).

• clautolisp-only extension; specified by pjb 2026-08-27.