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Running McCLIM and other Lisp packages on Windows

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McCLIM is an amazing project and a treasure trove of useful utils like CLOUSEAU. Unfortunatelly currently McCLIM has no backend for Windows. I'd like to use McCLIM and experiment with developing a backend.

Windows is quite hostile environment for mostly Unix-based Lisp packages. And McCLIM is not an exception. It uses CLX as a backend library and depends on STATIC-VECTORS - package that require CFFI-GROVELER to dynamically compile C program on system load.