[plt-scheme] Distributing slideshows.

From: Evan Farrer (farrer at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 29 09:34:03 EST 2005

I've created a Slideshow app that I'll eventually be running on a Windows machine without PLT-Scheme installed and that doesn't have a network connection.  I'm wondering about the best way to wrap up all the needed files.

I have something that seems to work but it seems like there should be a more elegant solution.

This is what I've done:
   1.  Compile my presentation module using:
        mzc.exe --gui-exe foo.exe foo.ss
   2.  Place foo.exe, the images that foo uses, the dynamic libraries, and the slideshow/texpict collections to a USB drive.
   3.  Run the slideshow from the drive.


I supose that there's nothing wrong with this approach, but it does feel like I'm distributing a lot of files.  I was under the impression that mzc would compile the module *and any dependencies* into the .exe file so that I wouldn't need to distribute a collects directory along with the .exe and .dll's.  Is there some magic flag that I'm missing or is this just the nature of the beast?


Evan



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