--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [gambit-list] Creating Windows GUI Apps in Gamit
To: "Marc Feeley" <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 6:12 PM

I installed Gambit and compiled the sample program under Win7 and under MinGW.  In each case it took 40-44 seconds.  I also notice that when I type typical commands in the shell, such as ls or ps or which, they take several seconds to execute.  Any ideas why that might be?  Following is PATH within the shell:

sh-3.1$ echo $PATH
/c/Program Files (x86)/Chez Scheme Version 8.2/bin/i3nt:/c/Unicon/bin:/c/Program
 Files (x86)/Unicon/bin:/c/windows/system32:/c/windows:/c/windows/System32/Wbem:
/c/windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/c/Program Files (x86)/ATI Technolog
ies/ATI.ACE/Core-Static:/c/windows/system32/gs/gs8.71/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)
/GnuWin32/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/GTK/2.0/bin:/c/Program Files (
x86)/MzScheme:/c/OpenSSL-Win32/bin:/c/Users/Steve/Desktop:/c/Program Files (x86)
/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/c/Program Files (x86)/Calibre2/:/c/Program Files (x86)/cli
sp-2.49:/c/Program Files (x86)/clisp-2.49:/c/Program Files (x86)/clisp-2.49:/c/P
rogram Files (x86)/Common Files/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/HP
/Digital Imaging/bin/:/c/Program Files (x86)/HP/Digital Imaging/bin/Qt/Qt 4.3.3:
/c/gambit/v4.6.1/bin:/mingw/bin:/usr/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin/:/c/Prog
ram Files (x86)/Steel Bank Common Lisp/1.0.37/
sh-3.1$

Thanks for all of your help.


Steve

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--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

From: Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: [gambit-list] Creating Windows GUI Apps in Gamit
To: "Steve Graham" <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 5:45 PM


On 2011-04-01, at 5:17 PM, Steve Graham wrote:

> It seems strange to me, too.
>
> Gambit was installed as part of a JazzScheme install.
>

That explains why it is not in your path.  You should add the bin directory of Gambit to your path, or install Gambit using the Windows installer.  It is OK to have two Gambits installed.

Marc