This is like being a child, waking up and realizing its christmas (and easter at the same time), thank you for working on this, I will test out this shiny new toy/gift (meant in the best possible way).
Because I am on linux, I will try to cross compile to windows (time to dust off my windows vm for testing ;)) Matthew Flatt schrieb am Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2021 um 17:54:40 UTC+2: > While `raco exe` in v8.1 very nearly supports cross-builds of Racket > executables[*], it's not easy to pass the right flags and set up the > needed target-platform distributions. > > The `raco cross` command provided by the new "raco-cross" package wraps > Racket tools to simplify all of that management. For example, > > raco cross --target x86_64-linux --vm bc exe example.rkt > > is like running > > raco exe example.rkt > > but it cross-builds for x86_64 Linux. That build process involves > downloading a minimal racket tarball for the target platform, > installing "compiler-lib" there, downloading a matching minimal build > of Racket for the host platform, and then running the host Racket in > cross-build mode with installed target distribution --- but, again, > `raco cross` takes care of all that. > > Just like using `raco exe` on Linux, the generated executable won't > actually work on other machines until you package it in a distribution > using `raco dist`: > > raco cross --target x86_64-linux --vm bc dist example-dist example > > Naturally, this second invocation of `raco cross` for the same target > uses the installations prepared by the first `raco cross`, so it's > relatively fast. > > > I expect that `raco cross` will become more useful after the v8.2 > release, which will repair cross-compilation for CS executables and > executables with native libraries (like GUI executables). Meanwhile, > it's possible to use `raco cross` with snapshot builds, but you have to > point it at a snapshot site; see the documentation for more > information. > > > Because juggling multiple installations and versions is a lot of the > work for cross-compilation, `raco cross` can also be a way to get to a > different version of Racket in minimal form. For example, > > raco cross --version 8.0 racket > > starts a Racket v8.0 prompt. (The `racket` command is treated specially > by `raco cross`. All other commands are prefixed by `raco`.) > > > For more information see > > https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco-cross/index.html > > > [*] Running a cross-built CS executable fails at the very last step of > startup, and that's due to an expander bug for handling top-level > `begin` forms compiled in machine-independent form. We didn't > detect this problem before, because it wasn't part of Bogdan's use > case for cross builds, and because cross-compilation was painful > enough that we didn't actually try other cases. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/d3bc9cde-14fe-4b59-b426-ea12a49ead89n%40googlegroups.com.
