Re: [Chicken-users] Windows deployment - Numbers egg

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 08:50:59PM +0800, Robert Herman wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> "csc -deploy -static Pi-Ch.scm" creates a deploy directory, and the
> resulting executable is 1.6MB vs 77KB, but it still throws the "cannot the
> load the extension: numbers".
> 
> I then tried putting libchicken.dll in the deploy directory that was
> created, and making numbers.so a numbers.dll file, since Windows does not
> use .so files, only .dll.

I think this is incorrect; looking at my VM mingw install, and all the eggs
(even all the import libraries from CHICKEN core), it uses .so for all the
dynamically loaded extensions.  And if I install it normally, and type
(use numbers) at the REPL, it prints that it's loaded /path/to/numbers.so

Renaming manually is something I would definitely not recommend, because
then you would be messing with the names that CHICKEN expects.

> I used chicken-install -r to retrieve the numbers
> egg into the current directory. I then tried "csc -dll numbers.scm" and it
> created numbers.so. I tried putting it in the deploy directory, but no
> luck. I changed the .so to .dll, and again no luck.

I've tried to do it "by the book" on mingw (msys):

$ /path/to/chicken-install.exe numbers
$ echo '(use numbers) (print 1/2)' > foo.scm
$ /path/to/csc.exe -deploy -X numbers-syntax foo.scm
$ /path/to/chicken-install.exe -deploy -prefix foo numbers
$ # To prove that it's not loading numbers from install dir:
$ /path/to/chicken-uninstall.exe numbers
$ ./foo/foo.exe
1/2

This works perfectly.  The book, incidentally, is here:
http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Deployment

Hope this helps,
Peter

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