Easy setup for Clojure on Mac OS X Leopard

24 08 2009

Clojure definitely is one of the hottest new programming languages around and just recently hit a very important milestone. Setting up a nice Clojure development environment on OS X still can be a bit of a pain though, which can be seen by the number of HOWTOs and installation notes floating around on the web. I therefore decided to expand one of those into ClojureX, which I believe is the easiest way to get up to speed with Clojure development on Leopard.

ClojureX can

download and build the source code for Clojure, clojure-contrib and JLine (a readline like library for Java)

download editor support packages for TextMate and Emacs

create a symlink for the Clojure startup script in /usr/local/bin

install support for TextMate via the clojure-tmbundle

configure Emacs to use clojure-mode, Slime and swank-clojure

keep your Clojure installation up to date via a simple “git submodule update && ant”

I hope this will come in handy for other people interested in trying out Clojure on Mac OS X, if you have any feedback please post it in the comment section.

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10 10 2009: #1 icey (Reply)

Hrm, it mostly works, except slime doesn’t seem to be wired up after calling ./configure_emacs (everything else is there though)
10 10 2009: #1.1 citizen428 (Reply)

Thanks for the feedback! I’m surprised emacs didn’t get configured for you, because I used ClojureX to set up my own Clojure dev environment…
10 10 2009: #1.1.1 citizen428 (Reply)

Ok, I see what you mean now. M-x slime stopped working in the last month or so (I haven’t had much time for Clojure). I’ll look into that.
10 10 2009: #1.2 citizen428 (Reply)

Ok, it’s fixed now, the directory layout of swank-clojure got changed around a bit, so configure_emacs created a non-working ~/.emacs. Thanks for the report again! BTW: if you encounter any other problems, please use the issue tracker at GitHub.
19 12 2009: #2 prism345 (Reply)

After trying for several hours to install clojure mode for emacs, I finally found your project. It works out of the box (OK, I had to remove old .swank-clojure-directory ).
Thank you and your friends for ClojureX.
18 02 2010: #3 Alpinweis (Reply)

I am getting a non working .emacs – in the new swank-clojure the folder swank-clojure/src/emacs that does not exist, so (require ‘swank-clojure-autoload) fails
18 02 2010: #3.1 citizen428 (Reply)

Yeah, unfortunately neither Scott nor I have the time to keep up with upstream changes right now, so ClojureX is semi-broken at the moment :-/

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