# sorry, I didn't reply to the list I use racket with M-x run-scheme not slime.
compiling is definetly overkill, but I'm not sure the parameters are incompatible. There's a lot of application on OS X that uses the same structure as on unix/linux. 2011/7/14 Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> > 9 hours ago, John Clements wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Lavoie Francis wrote: > > > I want to learn racket. I already started learning lisp from Land > > > of Lisp, Practical Common Lisp and a bit of Clojure. > > > > > > For my everyday job (python, javascript) I use emacs, to learn > > > lisp and clojure I used emacs with slime. I would like to do the > > > same thing with racket but I ran into trouble, emacs can't find > > > racket. > > > > > > First, it looks like emacs for OS X does not use the users' own > > > $PATH, but the one of the system. I tried some hack I found on > > > google > > > (http://olabini.com/blog/2009/12/path-problem-with-emacs-on-mac-os-x/, > > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2) without luck, emacs > > > can't find racket. > > > > This one I can shed some light on. If you start emacs (or any other > > program) from a shell (running in a terminal window), it inherits > > that shell's PATH. If you start it from the finder, though, it > > doesn't. One way to fix this is to start emacs from a terminal > > window. Another is to try a hack such as the one you describe. > > Another one is to explicitly specify the path in the command that > > runs racket. > > Given that confusion, and the fact that most people on OSX use the > finder to run things, the last option is probably the most convenient. > Note, however, that slime won't work with racket. > > Another option is to put symlinks in whatever is in your Finder's > default $PATH. > > > > > So I tried to compile racket from source. > > (That's definitely an overkill for solving a $PATH problem...) > > > > I used the unix build to install racket into the standard path. > > >> ./configure --enable-mac64 --enable-xonx --prefix=/usr/local > > > It produced the following error message: --enable-mac64 and > > > --enable-xonx are not valid option; but everything runs well and > > > works! Great I can start to create some stuff. > > They are definitely not compatible -- the first is for OSX > applications (whatever buzzword is used (cocoa?)), and the second is > for a unix build that uses the OSX X thing. > > Also, note that by default -- without a `--prefix' flag, Racket builds > itself in place. When that's done you can move the resulting > directory anywhere you want. It's generally much more conveinent than > `--prefix'. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >
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