Clojure-emacs-windows

1. Cygwin

I use cygwin for all my unix on Windows tasks. You may use MSYS or nothing at all probably, but I will tell you here how to do thing using cygwin. Adjust accordingly.

If you want to install cygwin, go to cygwin.org and get setup.exe. Installation is pretty straightforward. If you don’t have wget check it here. Same applies to git.

2. Prerequisites.

Install wget (leiningen uses it), install git (you will need it in your projects, that’s for sure. And most public clojure projects use it). Also you’ll need Java JDK. Since we are on Windows just download it from http://java.sun.com.

3. Ant, Maven and Leiningen

Download Ant and put all its folders into your cygwin directory, so that its bin contents go to /bin, lib to /lib etc.

Download maven and put its folders into, say, /opt/maven. Then add /opt/maven/bin to your path. You DO NOT want to put mnv to /bin because of maven and cygwin specifics (it will not work, most probably).

Now get leiningen script from github (http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/1.1.0/bin/lein). Put it into /bin and run

lein self-install

Now you can create new clojure projects

lein new sample_proj

To put all dependencies in ./lib

lein deps

It will download needed jars and cache them locally in ~/.m2/

To build project

lein clean
lein uberjar

This will create a big jar which contains all dependencies including clojure and clojure-contrib.

4. Clojure box

Download and install the latest version from http://clojure.bighugh.com/ This will get you EMacs with all things configured for clojure.

Happy hacking.