Oh! I just remembered that we recently patch Racket with Racket blinders so that it doesn't acknowledge the existence of any language not implemented a Racket macro. I think you're just out of luck unless you want to downgrade.
Jay On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Tim Nelson <tbnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the hint Danny. I didn't know about that function... but I'm > sorry to say that > > > (find-executable-path "java.exe") > #f > > whereas from cmd: > > where java > C:\Windows\System32\java.exe > > so the command line knows about it, and I can use it, but it is concealed > from Racket, even via find-executable-path. That's probably a more concise > statement of my problem! > > - T > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote: > >> >> One of my Racket projects scans the PATH directories to locate >>> the Java executable, if one is installed. >>> >> >> If you're searching through PATHt, you should be able to use >> find-executable-path. >> >> >> http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html#(def._((lib._racket/private/misc..rkt)._find-executable-path)) >> >> >> For example: >> >> (find-executable-path "java.exe") >> >> > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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