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