I apologize for the semi-clueless nature of this message. I know that
Racket's been going through a lot of changes in the last few months.
Rip van Winkle here is trying to come back up to speed.
I did a fresh git clone, then built Racket's core on Windows with VS2008
via the script in racket/racket/src/worksp/build.bat. Apparently this
built only the core (thank you, Vince on irc). I got a working
racket.exe with some intrinsics included, but no drracket or the
standard libraries (gracket -z complained that it could not find
racket/racket/collects/racket/gui/init.rkt).
At Vince's advice, I tried
raco pkg install -i main-distribution
to complete my installation, but got a SSL error
Resolving "main-distribution" via https://pkg.racket-lang.org
SSLv23_client_method: implementation not found; no arguments provided
...collects/openssl/mzssl.rkt:397:18
So then I did something radical: I read the top-level README.txt and
followed its directions.
nmake win32-in-place
This rebuilt the core, created a spurious "-p" subdirectory, and finally
triggered the complain-no-submodule target:
"Native packages are not in the expected subdirectory" something
something "git submodule" something
Generally, what's the new proper practice for building my own Racket on
Windows? Build.bat no longer suffices by itself.
Thanks,
Ben
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