Re: Weird -keyword-style prefix behaviour with modules

[Alexey Egorov via Chicken-users]

Thanks a lot!

On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM Kon Lovett <konlov...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 17, 2026, at 7:42 AM, Alexey Egorov via Chicken-users 
> <chicken-users@nongnu.org> wrote:
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> Oh, that's why. Thank you very much, now I see.
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> Also, I found an issue with my original example: I forgot to add -uses
> module to main.o compilation. When I added it it also started to work.
> So I failed to properly link my compiled code, and instead import
> tried to load the source file.
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> I should remember that -:d flag. By the way, how does one learn about
> it? Are there any other flags?
> Csc and Chicken man pages don't seem to mention it.
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> https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Using%20the%20compiler#runtime-options
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM Peter Bex <pe...@more-magic.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 02:57:43PM +0300, Alexey Egorov via Chicken-users 
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> ./test
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> Result:
> Error: Module `module' has unresolved identifiers
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> Try running it with -:d, like so:
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> ./test -:d
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> Then you'll notice it emits the following line:
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> ; loading ./module.scm ...
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> The reason is that it will try to load module.so at runtime, and failing
> that, it will fall back to trying to load module.scm.  And the default
> prefix style applies there.  To change that you'd have to set the
> keyword-style parameter yourself at runtime.
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> If you want to compile statically, you will have to avoid loading the
> module dynamically.
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> Compile it like this:
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> csc -static -o test main.o module.o
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> and then it'll work.
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> Note that you only need to use -K prefix to compile module.scm, as the
> prefix style only applies to the *reader*.
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> Cheers,
> Peter
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