[Chicken-users] Re: Compiling files that 'import' eggs that aren't installed?

[Alejandro Forero Cuervo]

> How does one compile a file that requires an extension which is not
> currently installed?  I couldn't find the answer looking at The
> Chicken Manual.  Obviously, the file being compiled does not depend on
> macros from the module, it just depends on it at runtime.
> 
> In Chicken 3 this was not an issue.  In Chicken 4, I'm getting:
> 
> > Syntax error (import): cannot import from undefined module
> 
> I know one can do something like:
> 
>   (load (string-append (repository-path) module-name ".so"))
> 
> But I'm thinking about something cleaner than that (that, because it
> uses the normal code that loads eggs at runtime, will, for instance,
> not load the module if it had already been loaded by another
> extension).
> 
> This is a problem for me because (1) I have files that want to execute
> different codepaths depending on which eggs are available (loading
> those that are) and (2) I have mutually dependent eggs (which now I
> can't install in Chicken 4).

(The particular eggs are the format-compiler egg, which has embedded
tests using my embedded-test framework, and the embedded-test, which
uses format when tests fail.)

Alejo.
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