[plt-scheme] Problems with DrScheme3m

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue May 9 08:53:47 EDT 2006

At Mon, 8 May 2006 18:56:16 -0700 , "Williams, M. Douglas" wrote:
> I downloaded the "Full" version of PLT Scheme 301.13 (for Windows XP) to
> test the 3m versions of DrScheme, etc and see what effect they have on the
> simulation collection.  The examples work fine under DrScheme, but fail with
> the following error under DrScheme3m
> 
> ffi-lib: couldn't open "C:\\Program
> Files\\PLT-FULL-301.13\\collects/plot/compiled\\native\\win32\\i386\\3m\\lib
> plplot.dll" (The specified module could not be found.; errno=126)

I fixed "plot" so that it can work in 3m.

There were a couple of problems that I found: the FFI glue didn't look
in the non-3m directory for the DLLs, and it was putting a GCable byte
string into one of the plot DLL's static variables.

Let us know if you still see problems after the next build.

Matthew



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