Re: [racket-users] Problems with dynamic loading and `raco exe` executables

2018-05-07 Thread Tony Fischetti
Thanks, Shu-Hung With your help, I got it working for the application I was using this for. The main thing that made the difference for me was the (require racket/runtime-path (for-syntax .) thing and including *a lot* of libs in the call to `raco exe` I'm still using `load` because I need

Re: [racket-users] Problems with dynamic loading and `raco exe` executables

2018-05-07 Thread Shu-Hung You
#lang racket/load and (load PATH) are less idiomatic and more low-level in Racket. I don't know how did racket/load and load interact with ``raco exe'' but here's another way to make it work. Everything is placed inside modules. $ racket test.rkt ... ok ... $ raco exe ++lib

Re: [racket-users] Problems with dynamic loading and `raco exe` executables

2018-05-07 Thread Tony Fischetti
This is some really great advice! Thanks! I'm still confused about why making an executable isn't working. Am I doing something wrong? Even if I choose the framework option for *this* project (it seems like a really helpful thing) I'd like to be able to distribute, for example, `.app`

Re: [racket-users] Problems with dynamic loading and `raco exe` executables

2018-05-07 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Regarding overriding globals, a Racket `parameter` is more idiomatic: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/parameters.html And/or, you could load your config file as a module, like `info.rkt` is. You might find `dynamic-require` and friends interesting:

[racket-users] Problems with dynamic loading and `raco exe` executables

2018-05-07 Thread Tony Fischetti
Hi all! I read all the documentation and relevant threads (I promise) I could on the topic but I'm still stuck. Basically, I'm writing an application that I'd like to be able to read an "config" file that's valid racket code and can override globals set in the driver racket module. Here's a