[racket] Racket on Centos?

I don’t believe there are any prebuilt CentOS Racket distributions available, so I can’t help you there. I will say, however, that I recently built Racket from source for the first time, and I found it remarkably easy. I cloned the repo, ran make, and I was done.

Building from source can take some time, though, mostly since it needs to compile all the packages. You can download the Unix Source + built packages distribution from download.racket-lang.org <http://download.racket-lang.org/>, though, which contains the package bytecode pre-compiled. The bytecode is platform-independent, so you’ll only have to build the core, not the packages.

Someone else might be more knowledgable in that area than I am, but I’m guessing that’s the best you’re going to get unless there’s a CentOS distribution I’m not aware of.

> On Jan 16, 2015, at 21:45, George Neuner <gneuner2 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am looking at a possible deployment on a Centos based cloud VM and I won't have a compiler available to build Racket locally.  Is there a pre-made distribution (preferably 6.0.1) that runs on Centos 6 or 7?
> 
> If not, how hard would it be to compile Racket on a separate Centos machine and then install it to the cloud VPS?  [He asks naively never having built Racket before.]
> 
> Thanks,
> George
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