You’re complicating to too much. You write a makefile to load your lisp code (which usually means loading your ASDF system), and dump the image (e.g., save-lisp

You’re complicating to too much. You write a makefile to load your lisp code (which usually means loading your ASDF system), and dump the image (e.g., save-lisp-and-die). Development and deployment are separate in pretty much any language. Here is a real example from a real commercial project: Makefile: https://github.com/rigetti/quilc/blob/master/Makefile#L72 https://github.com/rigetti/quilc/blob/master/Makefile#L72 Build script: https://github.com/rigetti/quilc/blob/master/build-app.lisp https://github.com/rigetti/quilc/blob/master/build-app.lisp Everything you’ve seemed to use are completely free and open source solutions. Common Lisp has at least two major commercial options with excellent documentation which you’re looking for: LispWorks and Allegro CL.