[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.3

From: Doug Williams (m.douglas.williams at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 13:51:08 EDT 2012

I used Create Executable in DrRacket. But, I just tried raco exe --gui
main.rkt to create it and get exactly the same error.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Is this application generated with 'raco exe'?  Or 'Create Executable'
> in DrRacket?
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Doug Williams
> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some more information on the problem. The application runs fine with
>> the pre-release on Windows 7 - 64 bit.
>>
>> The code that is dying on Windows XP 32-bit is:
>>
>> ---
>>
>> (require racket/runtime-path)
>>
>> ...
>>
>> ;;;
>> (define-runtime-path subject-path "..\\Subjects.txt")
>>
>> ;;;
>> (define (load-subject-encodings)
>>   (let ((port (open-input-file subject-path #:mode 'text)))
>>     (set! subject-encodings
>>           (append
>>            default-subject-encodings
>>            (for/list ((line (in-lines port))
>>                       #:when (regexp-match? #px"^\"(.*)\"\\s*\"(.*)\"" line))
>>              (match line
>>                ((pregexp "^\"(.*)\"\\s*\"(.*)\"" (list _ subject encoding))
>>                 (list (pregexp (format "^(?i:~a)" subject)) encoding))))))
>>     (close-input-port port)))
>>
>> ...
>>
>> (define subject-encodings default-subject-encodings)
>>
>> (load-subject-encodings)
>>
>>  ...
>>
>> ---
>>
>> This code loads some data at load time. It does use match, which might
>> explain the message:
>>
>> standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
>>   collection: "racket/match"
>>   in collection directories:
>>   context...:
>>    standard-module-name-resolver
>>    #%embedded:g13106:ground-truth-data: [running body]
>>    #%embedded:g13057:radar-data: [traversing imports]
>>    #%embedded:g8619:classifier-panel: [traversing imports]
>>    main: [traversing imports]
>>    loop
>>
>> [Exited. Close box or Ctrl-C closes the console.]
>>
>> I get when I run the compiled version. In DrRacket it dies with the
>> unhandled Win 32 exception.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Doug Williams
>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The pre-release 32-bit version still fails for my large applications
>>> at work fails to execute in DrRacket - 32-bit Windows XP. I don't have
>>> the source or symbol tables loaded so the only message I get from the
>>> Visual Studio debugger is attached. This is the same problem I was
>>> having with the previous pre-release version a month or so ago.
>>>
>>> I can create an executable of the application. It fails because it
>>> doesn't find racket/match. I'll look into that further.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
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>
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