[racket-dev] advice on linking against racket in windows

At Sat, 8 Oct 2011 10:41:52 -0700, John Clements wrote:
> 
> On Oct 8, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> 
> > At Sat, 8 Oct 2011 10:28:58 -0700, John Clements wrote:
> >> I'm building cross-platform binaries, and one of my platforms is Windows.
> >> 
> >> Moreover, I'm calling mzrt_sema primitives from my library, but those are 
> the 
> >> only Racket functions I'm calling.
> > 
> > The main problem is that the mzrt_ functions are not currently exported
> > from the Racket DLL. We can change that for future versions, but
> > they're completely inaccessible from the current DLLs.
> > 
> > (On many platforms, all non-`static' functions are exported, so mzrt_
> > functions are exported anyway. But it doesn't work that way for
> > Windows.)
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
> >> 2) Find some racket DLL or .o file and the right scheme.h, and add them to 
> my 
> >> Visual Studio 2010 project.
> > 
> > The right files are in the "include" and "lib/msvc" directories of your
> > Racket installation.
> 
> I'm slightly confused... your first two paragraphs are saying that number 2 
> won't currently work, so this is hypothetical, right?

Yes, sorry --- I meant to insert a line to say "If we export the mzrt_
functions, then..."