Clozure CL builds the IDE from sources in the "objc-bridge" and "cocoa-ide" directories in the Clozure CL distribution. The IDE as a whole is a relatively complicated application, and is probably not the best place to look when you are first trying to understand how to build Cocoa applications. For that, you might benefit more from the examples in the "examples/cocoa/" directory. Once you are familiar with those examples, though, and have some experience building your own application features using Cocoa and the Objective-C bridge, you might browse through the IDE sources to see how it implements its features.

The search path for Clozure CL's REQUIRE feature includes the "objc-bridge" and "cocoa-ide" directories. You can load features defined in these directories by using REQUIRE. For example, if you want to use the Cocoa features of Clozure CL from a terminal session (or from an Emacs session using SLIME or ILISP), you can evaluate (require :cocoa).