As a clarification question: have executables created with old versions stopped working, or is it only executables created with the pre-release version that fail to work?
Robby On Sunday, July 15, 2012, Jussi Salmela wrote: > Versions: Win 7 & Racket 5.3.0.13--2012-07-05(467bde3/a) > > I have a program starting like this: > > #lang racket/gui > > (require 2htdp/batch-io) > (require racket/mpair) > (require srfi/13) > > ;;; Jussi Salmela, http://www.saunalahti.fi/jussalme > ;;; > ;;; This program produces graphs for blood pressure monitor (==> bpm) > ;;; data. The data (in CSV format) has been downloaded from a > ;;; blood pressure measurement device, model OMRON M10-IT. > ;;; > > It reads a CSV formatted file containing diastolic and systolic BP values > amongst other data. It creates a GUI window drawing a chart of the d/s > value lines for > every date/line. When a button is clicked in the window the program creates > a PDF file and shows it in Adobe Reader using shell-execute. > > Everything fine and dandy when run in DrRacket but not when I create > an executable. I create the executable with the middle selection ie. > "a standalone exe for this computer". When I run the resulting exe I get: > > standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found > collection: "lang/private" > in collection directories: > context...: > standard-module-name-resolver > #%embedded:g10080:htdp-beginner: [traversing imports] > #%embedded:g10047:prim: [traversing imports] > #%embedded:g9942:batch-io: [traversing imports] > bpm-graph-printer: [traversing imports] > loop > > [Exited. Close box or Ctrl-C closes the console.] > > What follows reminds me of my teaching assistant times looong ago: > people came to see me with their card decks and program listings > claiming that they had not changed anything, the program just had > mysteriously stopped working! > > When subjected to the third degree they admitted to having edited a line > or two > and changing the order of a few lines but insisted that surely that can't > be > the cause of the changed behavior. > > But I am going to stick to my claim: this used to work earlier and > I have not changed anything. What this means is that I created an > exe in February of 2011 and used it successfully in March, September, > and March 2012 again. > > I don't remember what version of Racket I used and I don't have > it on my computer any more, so I get an error of a missing DLL when > I try to start the old exe. > > I use the read-lines function from batch-io and this trouble > obviously has something to do with that. > > Either my program is incorrect and DrRacket is too kind in not turning me > down > when running it or there's something funny going on in the exe creation. > > Jussi > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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