[racket] Cross-compilation

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 21 11:41:51 EDT 2011

I think our intention is that a windows-created distribution should
run on all windows platforms, tho, so maybe there is something fixable
here.

Robby

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> This is unfortunately true at the moment.
> It is a topic of discussion and will certainly come up in our next design
> meeting.
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Mark Carter wrote:
>
> I'm using Racket 5.1.1. on win 7. I created an executable of type
> "distribution" and base "gracket". A zip file is created.
> It runs fine on my machine. I have had a report that it doesn;t run on Win
> XP, and when it was tried on Win Vista, the user obtained an error 'can't
> load dll libracket3m_8aa6ug.dll'.
> What gives? Does that mean that a compiled executable can only be run on the
> platform for which it was compiled?
>
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