Re: [racket-dev] system-library-subpath etc. on windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms?

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Flatt
Yes, that's all correct. Although Microsoft now simply calls it the "Windows" API, it used to be called "Win32". At Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:34:47 -0700, John Clements wrote: > > On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > > Matthew or someone can give an authoritative answer, but if this

Re: [racket-dev] system-library-subpath etc. on windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms?

2011-09-22 Thread John Clements
On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Matthew or someone can give an authoritative answer, but if this lets you > sleep tonight... I suspect the "win32" in Racket is fine, and that Visual > Studio just has a backward-compatibility awkwardness in naming. > > Win32 was the name o

Re: [racket-dev] system-library-subpath etc. on windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms?

2011-09-22 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthew or someone can give an authoritative answer, but if this lets you sleep tonight... I suspect the "win32" in Racket is fine, and that Visual Studio just has a backward-compatibility awkwardness in naming. Win32 was the name of one of the generations of Windows API, and I believe that u

[racket-dev] system-library-subpath etc. on windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms?

2011-09-22 Thread John Clements
In distributing compiled binaries for Windows, I'm trying to cover all of the bases for the required DLLs. As far as I can tell from Visual Studio 2010, there are only two flavors, 32-bit and 64-bit. However, I see that on at least one of my students' machines, the system-library-subpath comes