3 Usage

Installation

The source code for the Software Evolution library is available at https://github.com/eschulte/software-evolution. The following Common Lisp packages are required by this library, all of which are installable through Quicklisp (see http://www.quicklisp.org/).

• alexandria
• metabang-bind
• curry-compose-reader-macros
• split-sequence
• cl-ppcre
• elf

Depending on the type of software object used the following may also be required.

• llvm-mutate for llvm object support (available from https://github.com/eschulte/llvm-mutate).
• cil-mutate for cil object support (available from https://github.com/eschulte/cil-mutate).
• clang-mutate for clang object support (available from https://github.com/eschulte/cil-mutate).

Packaging

The Software Evolution library is meant to be used from Common Lisp programs. Common lisp packages should include the software-evolution library and may also include the software-evolution-utility library in their package definition as in the following example.

(defpackage :software-evolution-example
  (:use :common-lisp
        :software-evolution
        :software-evolution-utility))

Examples

The following examples demonstrate usage.