I created a very basic exe with racket 32bit on windows 7 (64bit) and it ran fine on winxp.
I used raco exe and not raco distribute though. Also, I'm not sure what it means to have gracket as a base. Which option is that? Mark, can you provide some more details about what you are trying to compile? On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > 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 > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
