I put all the code here https://github.com/kazzmir/racket-allegro-4
It might not completely work, ill fix any minor bugs asap. On 04/27/2012 03:13 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote: > This is essentially what I was doing to distribute Allegro4. I'll put the > code on github so you can see how it loaded the ffi libraries. > > (FYI, compiling all the libraries and keeping things working was a huge pain, > especially when something changes in the ffi library and you need to > recompile) > > On 04/27/2012 02:56 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: >> Let me mutter for a bit and see if this all makes sense. >> >> >> * Jon Rafkind's bindings (https://github.com/kazzmir/racket-allegro-5) >> use the FFI and assume the presence of the Allegro 5 shared libraries. >> >> * If I wanted to build binary packages for the main platforms (Linux, >> Windows, Mac OS X) that does not assume these bindings are already >> installed, then I must distribute the shared libraries with my >> program, too. >> >> * That means I should somehow obtain or generate the shared libraries >> for the three platforms. I can get the Windows ones easily from >> http://www.allegro.cc/files/, and generate the Linux and Mac OS X ones >> by building from source. >> >> * I will need to adjust Jon's FFI bindings to use the correct set of >> shared libraries based on (system-type). >> >> * I should use 'define-runtime-path' for each of the shared libraries, >> so that 'raco distribute' can properly collect them. Since the >> libraries are platform-specific, I should do a compile-time >> computation to include the right set of libraries based on the current >> platform. >> >> >> Does that sound about right? >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
