Racket on Corporate Desktop Windows
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Bruce O'Neel
Feb 15, 2021, 2:45:26 AM2/15/21
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Hi,
So for quite some while I have been running a minimal racket on my locked down windows desktop. Go to More Installers and Checksums and I grab the Windows 64bit x86-64 tar ball, untar it, and everyone is happy.
But no GUI of course.
Well I had been building on MacOS for years following the instructions to build a Minimal Racket and then run
raco pkg install -i main-distribution
and it finally clicked that the instructions were almost identical for Windows.
raco pkg update --auto racket-lib
raco pkg install -i main-distribution
just like the instructions said. In my mind I thought "I don't have a build toolchain on Windows, so that won't work." And I was wrong. It works just fine on my locked down desktop and now I have a GUI Dr Racket as well.
cheers
bruce
Wayne Harris
Mar 30, 2021, 6:51:37 AM3/30/21
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"Bruce O'Neel" <bruce...@pckswarms.ch>
writes:
[...]
> But no GUI of course.
>
> Well I had been building on MacOS for years following the instructions
> to build a Minimal Racket and then run
>
> raco pkg install -i main-distribution
>
> and it finally clicked that the instructions were almost identical for
> Windows.
>
> raco pkg update --auto racket-lib raco pkg install -i
> main-distribution
>
> just like the instructions said. In my mind I thought "I don't have a
> build toolchain on Windows, so that won't work." And I was wrong. It
> works just fine on my locked down desktop and now I have a GUI Dr
> Racket as well.
Cool! Thanks for sharing!
writes:
[...]
> But no GUI of course.
>
> Well I had been building on MacOS for years following the instructions
> to build a Minimal Racket and then run
>
> raco pkg install -i main-distribution
>
> and it finally clicked that the instructions were almost identical for
> Windows.
>
> raco pkg update --auto racket-lib raco pkg install -i
> main-distribution
>
> just like the instructions said. In my mind I thought "I don't have a
> build toolchain on Windows, so that won't work." And I was wrong. It
> works just fine on my locked down desktop and now I have a GUI Dr
> Racket as well.
David Storrs
Mar 30, 2021, 11:18:12 AM3/30/21
to Wayne Harris, Racket Users
Slightly offtopic, but I wanted to point out that when GMail sees a conversation happening it collapses all the emails into one line and displays the first names of the first two posters side-by-side with the subject. I am tickled to have a thread from Bruce O'Neel and Wayne Harris in my email.
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