[racket] Loading or Requiring a Module

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 11 10:47:58 EST 2014

You should create a collection to hold your module:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/module-basics.html#%28part._link-collection%29

If you create "myCollection" and put "myModule_rkt.so" in

 myCollection/compiled/native/x86_64/3m/

then you'll be able to import it from anywhere using

 (require myCollection/myModule)



At Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:20:15 -1000, Cody Eilar wrote:
> Lately I have been using (require "myModule.rlt") to access some extensions
> that I wrote in C. The caveat with this is that I have to put my extensions
> in the "special" directory compiled/native/x86_64/3m. This will end up to
> be a major problem because I need my extensions accessible from anywhere a
> racket script is created on my machine.
> 
> In other words, what I would like to do is something like this:
> 
> (require "/path/to/myModule_rkt.so")
> 
> Now, if I don't make my c extension a module, I can do something similar to
> this using (load-extension) but then the problem becomes that I can't run a
> script. I am able to load my extension successfully from the racket command
> line, but if I run racket myscript.rtk, it doesn't recognize any of the
> extension functions, let alone the extension.
> 
> From what I have read so far here :
> 
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval.html#%28tech._compiled._load._handle
> r%29
> 
> The only way to do what I want would be to copy that compiled directory
> around from project to project and that's a real bummer.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
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