Running ClojureCLR 1.7 on Mac OS X

ClojureCLR 1.7.0 came out few days ago. Trying it out on Mac OS X took some steps that I document in this post.

Step 1: Download latest Mono from the URL below
http://www.mono-project.com/download/#download-mac

Step 2: Download ClojureCLR 1.7.0 using NuGet client

$ nuget install Clojure -Version 1.7.0

This command will create a directory 'Clojure.1.7.0' containing ClojureCLR 1.7 files.

Step 3: Put lib and tools files together

$ cd Clojure.1.7.0
$ mkdir all
$ cp -r lib/net40 all
$ cp -r tools/net40/* all/net40
$ cp -r lib/net35 all/
$ cp -r tools/net35/* all/net35/

Step 4: Verify that files are combined by running the 'tree' command

$ tree
.
├── Clojure.1.7.0.nupkg
├── all
│   ├── net35
│   │   ├── Clojure.Compile.exe
│   │   ├── Clojure.Main.exe
│   │   ├── Clojure.dll
│   │   ├── Microsoft.Dynamic.dll
│   │   ├── Microsoft.Scripting.Core.dll
│   │   └── Microsoft.Scripting.dll
│   └── net40
│       ├── Clojure.Compile.exe
│       ├── Clojure.Main.exe
│       ├── Clojure.dll
│       ├── Microsoft.Dynamic.dll
│       └── Microsoft.Scripting.dll
├── lib
│   ├── net35
│   │   ├── Clojure.dll
│   │   ├── Microsoft.Dynamic.dll
│   │   ├── Microsoft.Scripting.Core.dll
│   │   └── Microsoft.Scripting.dll
│   └── net40
│       ├── Clojure.dll
│       ├── Microsoft.Dynamic.dll
│       └── Microsoft.Scripting.dll
└── tools
    ├── net35
    │   ├── Clojure.Compile.exe
    │   └── Clojure.Main.exe
    └── net40
        ├── Clojure.Compile.exe
        └── Clojure.Main.exe

9 directories, 23 files

Step 5: Create a script called mklinks.sh with the following content

#!/usr/bin/env bash
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.clr.io.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.core.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.core_clr.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.core_deftype.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.core_print.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.core.protocols.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.core_proxy.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.genclass.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.gvec.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.instant.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.main.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.pprint.cl_format.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.pprint.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.pprint.column_writer.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.pprint.dispatch.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.pprint.pprint_base.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.pprint.pretty_writer.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.pprint.print_table.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.pprint.utilities.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.repl.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.set.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.stacktrace.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.string.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.template.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.test.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.uuid.clj.dll
ln -s Clojure.dll clojure.walk.clj.dll

Step 6: Create symlinks to Clojure.dll

cd all/net40
bash ../../mklinks.sh
cd ../..
cd all/net35
bash ../../mklinks.sh
cd ../..

Step 7: Run ClojureCLR now

Run the Clojure.Main.exe file with Mono. If everything went fine you will get a REPL.

$ mono all/net40/Clojure.Main.exe
Clojure 1.7.0
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