It should work fine if the distribution was made on the 32 bit version, which is the only released Windows version for 5.1.1. If that's what was used, then I think that there's some unknown problem.
An hour and a half ago, Robby Findler wrote: > I think our intention is that a windows-created distribution should > run on all windows platforms, tho, so maybe there is something fixable > here. > > Robby > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Matthias Felleisen > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > > > This is unfortunately true at the moment. > > It is a topic of discussion and will certainly come up in our next design > > meeting. > > > > > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Mark Carter wrote: > > > > I'm using Racket 5.1.1. on win 7. I created an executable of type > > "distribution" and base "gracket". A zip file is created. > > It runs fine on my machine. I have had a report that it doesn;t run on Win > > XP, and when it was tried on Win Vista, the user obtained an error 'can't > > load dll libracket3m_8aa6ug.dll'. > > What gives? Does that mean that a compiled executable can only be run on the > > platform for which it was compiled? -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users