[racket] Cross-compilation

It should work fine if the distribution was made on the 32 bit
version, which is the only released Windows version for 5.1.1.  If
that's what was used, then I think that there's some unknown problem.


An hour and a half ago, 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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