6.1 Software and hardware requirements

An overview of system requirements is provided in System requirements on FreeBSD. The sections that follow discuss any relevant details.

System requirements on FreeBSD
Hardware Requirements	Software Requirements
168MB of disk space for 32-bit LispWorks plus documentation	FreeBSD 10.x, or later with compat10x (if you want to run LispWorks on older versions of FreeBSD, then please contact Lisp Support)
182MB of disk space for 64-bit LispWorks plus documentation	GTK+ 2 (version 2.4 or higher) to run the GTK+ GUI. Open Motif 2.3.x and Imlib2 1.4.9 or later to run the deprecated Motif GUI
Any modern machine is likely to have sufficient RAM to run LispWorks as distributed.	Firefox or Opera web browser for viewing on-line documentation

6.1.1 GUI libraries

LispWorks 8.0 for FreeBSD requires that the X11 release 6 (or higher) is installed.

LispWorks 8.0 also requires that either GTK+ or Open Motif with Imlib2 are installed.

The remainder of this section contains the details for each of these distinct GUI options.

6.1.1.1 GTK+

In order for the LispWorks IDE to run "out of the box", GTK+ must be installed on the target machine.

GTK+ 2 (version 2.4 or higher) is required.

6.1.1.2 Motif

Open Motif version 2.3 is required to run LispWorks with the Motif GUI.

Install Open Motif 2.3.x from the FreeBSD distribution or ports tree. Your systems administrator may be able to help if you do not know how to do this.

You will also need Imlib2 version 1.4.9 or later. Install this from the FreeBSD distribution or ports tree.

6.1.2 Disk requirements

32-bit LispWorks requires about 160MB to install, and 64-bit LispWorks needs 180MB. This includes 110MB of documentation.

The documentation includes printable PDF format manuals. You may delete any of these that you do not need. They are available at www.lispworks.com/documentation in any case, and the same manuals are also available there in PostScript format.