Re: [racket-users] Experiences with Racket on RISC-V?

2019-01-08 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, The HiFive1 is a 32 bit integer only machine, sadly.  I guess I must admit being a bit old to re-do software floating point.  I still have nightmares of ARM and then later 68000 systems. Your right about the HiFive Unleashed would be a good system, but, expensive. There is

[racket-users] Technical Breakdown of a new NES game written in Lisp (dustmop.io)

2019-09-11 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Pointed to by hacker news (news.ycombinator.com) "Rather, a custom language was developed in tandem with the game.  [Co2](https://github.com/dustmop/co2) is a Lisp-like language, built on Racket Scheme, which compiles into 6502 assembly. This language was originally started by [Dave

Re: [racket-users] Racket v7.4

2019-08-09 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, Fantastic! It looks as if the CS builds are only x86-64, right?  Are there plans to add others, say arm32 and arm64? Thanks very much. cheers bruce > Racket version 7.4 is now available from > > [https://racket-lang.org/](https://racket-lang.org/) > >

[racket-users] Building Racket 7.5 CS on MacOS Catalina

2019-11-21 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi all, I normally build Racket from source, and, for 7.5 I decided to try Racket CS as well. Racket 7.5 builds fine from minimal source.  Racket CS builds fine as well from minimal source, but, when I run the command to build the rest of the distribution. ./raco pkg install

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket 7.5 does not run on Cent OS cloud computers

2019-12-16 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi Edurado, You could just download the linux source + built packages, and then cd racket-version cd src mkdir build cd build ../configure --prefix=where_do_you_want_to_install_racket make make install will build it for you.   On one of my systems  configure takes less

Re: [racket-users] Racket 7.5 DMG file does not open on OSX 10.11

2019-11-27 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, What would be the magic xattr command? Thanks. bruce > This is 100% workaround rather than a fix, but have you considered using the > minimal racket tarball: > >

Re: [racket-users] Building Racket 7.5 CS on MacOS Catalina

2019-11-25 Thread Bruce O'Neel
fixed for the next version (by commit 3c2efafbf5). > > If you really need things to work for v7.5, I can suggest a workaround. > But if you were just trying it out to see, then we should have this > working for next time. > > Matthew > > At Thu, 21 Nov

Re: [racket-users] Re: Installing Drracket on linux penguin on Chromebook

2020-01-18 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, If the architecture is aarch64 then most likely you'll need to build from source. In the University of Utah snapshot builds there is an armv6 build, but most likely this won't work,  but is worth trying.

Re: turtle’s outline on blue plaid as main image in initial window of DrRacket on 2020‐06‐11: an Easter egg and a curiosity (veering off topic for [racket-users])

2020-06-14 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, And you can find the file that generates that at share/pkgs/drracket/drracket/private called honu-logo.rkt The file deciding it is a special day is in the same place   drracket-normal.rkt cheers bruce > On 2020‐06‐11, DrRacket, at initialization,

Re: [racket-users] Is there a good Racket DSL alternative to Image Magick?

2021-05-11 Thread Bruce O'Neel
This might be it. > I don't know of one off hand, but I believe RacketCon 2018 (?) included a > presenter that showed a PostScript-like DSL for designers and artists.  If > pict not cover your needs, maybe dig into the presentations? > Failing that, can you show what

[racket-users] 8.0.0.13 on Windows

2021-04-04 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, When I download the minimial tar file and then run  raco pkg install --deps search-auto -i main-distribution everything seems fine, but at then end when I try to run DrRacket I get ptr-set!: cannot install value into non-atomic memory   value: #   destination: #  

Re: [racket-users] Re: Executable file size and raco demod

2021-04-05 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, I stumbled over that error too.  Apparently Mathew said it would be fixed in the next build. cheers bruce > Windows 10 > Snapshot: 20210404-725710e** >    Windows >   [64-bit >

Re: [racket-users] Something is going slightly wrong visually with the Linux version

2021-04-13 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, I think that the label foreground and background colours are ok. #lang racket (require racket/gui/base) (define bg (get-label-background-color)) (define fg (get-label-foreground-color)) Produces > (send bg red) 255 > (send bg green) 255 > (send bg blue)

Re: [racket-users] Something is going slightly wrong visually with the Linux version

2021-04-13 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Thanks.  Since I do this often at night I thought the same at first.  I get the same during daytime. The program produces #f cheers bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this

[racket-users] Something is going slightly wrong visually with the Linux version

2021-04-13 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, The most recent snapshot version built on Linux x86-64, Arm32, and Arm64 all have funny black blocks in the UI of Dr Racket. While this display was captured from a MacOS X11 server it is the same on the Linux X11 servers as well as directly on the console screen. Thanks.

[racket-users] Racket on Corporate Desktop Windows

2021-02-14 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, So for quite some while I have been running a minimal racket on my locked down windows desktop.   Go to More Installers and Checksums and I grab the Windows 64bit x86-64 tar ball, untar it, and everyone is happy. But no GUI of course. Well I had been building on MacOS for

[racket-users] Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2021

2021-09-23 Thread Bruce O'Neel
This might interest some of you... Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2021 - itch.io [https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2021] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

Re: [racket-users] Surprising but convenient

2021-12-19 Thread Bruce O'Neel
HI, It is a touch unclear what you mean by deleting the file and on which OS you are using. On Linux and similar OSes  the rm command just calls the unlink system call.  This removes the file from the directory and if the link count is now 0 then the file is removed from disk.  But this last

Re: [racket-users] self contained zip file install?

2022-06-18 Thread Bruce O'Neel
HI, So before I would download the minimal windows tar file to a linux system, untar it, and then zip it back up. Then that could be copied to the corporate windows system and unzipped.  And that give a minimal Racket. The part that has stopped working is I used to be able to, from cmd, run:

Re: [racket-users] self contained zip file install?

2022-06-18 Thread Bruce O'Neel
eb visit >  >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/c6bde6cd-0256-4f2d-b5e7-c39ed84cf702n%40googlegroups.com >  >[https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/c6bde6cd-0256-4f2d-b5e7-c39ed84cf702n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email_source=footer]. >  > On Saturday, June