In this case, we're specifically relying on the console interface to run tests against various implementations and report results on the console. Certainly, we could provide a wrapper for Allegro only, but that would be a stretch. So far as I can tell, Allegro is the only implementation solving this issue that way in Windows.
I'm curious, how do other Windows implementations solve this? Do they have a Windows exe and an console exe?
LispWorks has only a windows exe, but lets you dump a console exe. abcl, ccl, clisp, ecl, mkcl, sbcl seem to have console exe's only. I don't know the status of the recently resurrected cormanlisp; I believe it has a windows-only exe.
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