[racket] Cross-compilation

From: Ben Goetter (goetter at mazama.net)
Date: Thu Jul 21 12:08:20 EDT 2011

I would not expect an x64 distribution to run on ia32 Windows platforms.

On 7/21/2011 8:41 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
> I think our intention is that a windows-created distribution should
> run on all windows platforms, tho, so maybe there is something fixable
> here.
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>  wrote:
>> This is unfortunately true at the moment.
>> It is a topic of discussion and will certainly come up in our next design
>> meeting.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Mark Carter wrote:
>>
>> I'm using Racket 5.1.1. on win 7. I created an executable of type
>> "distribution" and base "gracket". A zip file is created.
>> It runs fine on my machine. I have had a report that it doesn;t run on Win
>> XP, and when it was tried on Win Vista, the user obtained an error 'can't
>> load dll libracket3m_8aa6ug.dll'.
>> What gives? Does that mean that a compiled executable can only be run on the
>> platform for which it was compiled?
>>
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