Re: [racket-users] requiring a file on windows

2021-02-03 Thread thro...@gmail.com
Thanks John. I somehow mis-remembered that this had worked on Linux before and became convinced there was a windows issue. sigh ... my memory errors got the best of me again. On Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 6:40:45 PM UTC-5 johnbclements wrote: > In order to allow static compilation, the p

Re: [racket-users] requiring a file on windows

2021-02-02 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
In order to allow static compilation, the path in a (file …) require must be a literal string. It sounds like you might be looking for “dynamic-require” ? Apologies if I’m misunderstanding you. John Clements > On Feb 2, 2021, at 3:20 PM, thro...@gmail.com wrote: > > I can't seem to build p

[racket-users] requiring a file on windows

2021-02-02 Thread thro...@gmail.com
I can't seem to build paths the way require wants them on windows. I must be missing something basic. Tried a bunch of things (can't remember them all), here's the last: (Racket versions 8.0.0.4--2021-02-01 and 7.8) (define wrk_dir #"C:/Temporary/zDEL3/TEST_BATCH/") (require(file(bytes->strin