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<h3 class="section">3.5 Loading ASDF from source</h3>

<p>If you write build scripts that must remain portable to old machines with old implementations
that you cannot ensure have been upgraded or modified to provide a recent ASDF,
you may have to install the file <samp>asdf.lisp</samp>
somewhere and load it with:
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<pre class="lisp">(load &quot;/path/to/your/installed/asdf.lisp&quot;)
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<p>The single file <samp>asdf.lisp</samp> is all you normally need to use ASDF.
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<p>You can extract this file from latest release tarball on the
<a href="https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/">ASDF website</a>.
If you are daring and willing to report bugs, you can get
the latest and greatest version of ASDF from its git repository.
See <a href="Getting-the-latest-version.html#Getting-the-latest-version">Getting the latest version</a>.
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<p>For scripts that try to use ASDF simply via <code>require</code> at first, and
make heroic attempts to load it the hard way if at first they don&rsquo;t succeed,
see <samp>tools/load-asdf.lisp</samp> distributed with the ASDF source repository,
or the code of <a href="https://cliki.net/cl-launch"><code>cl-launch</code></a>.
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