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## Prerequisites

### ASDF

CLSQL uses ASDF to compile and load its components. ASDF is included in the CCLAN collection.

### UFFI

CLSQL uses UFFI as a Foreign Function Interface (FFI) to support multiple ANSI Common Lisp implementations.

### MD5

CLSQL's postgresql-socket interface uses Pierre Mai's md5 module.

### Supported Common Lisp Implementation

The implementations that support CLSQL is governed by the supported implementations of UFFI. The following implementations are supported:

- AllegroCL v6.2 through 8.0 on Debian Linux x86 & x86_64 & PowerPC, FreeBSD 4.5, and Microsoft Windows XP.

- Lispworks v4.3 and v4.4 on Debian Linux and Microsoft Windows XP.

- CMUCL 18e on Debian Linux, FreeBSD 4.5, and Solaris 2.8. 19c on Debian Linux.

- SBCL 0.8.4 through 0.9.16 on Debian Linux.

- SCL 1.1.1 on Debian Linux.

- OpenMCL 0.14 PowerPC and 1.0pre AMD64 on Debian Linux .

### Supported SQL Implementation

CLSQL supports the following databases:

- MySQL (tested v3.23.51, v4.0.18, 5.0.24).

- PostgreSQL (tested with v7.4 and 8.0 with both direct API and TCP socket connections.

- SQLite version 2.

- SQLite version 3.

- Direct ODBC interface.

- Oracle OCI.

- Allegro's DB interface (AODBC).

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