The -exe option is fairly new, you see at what version it was introduced in the Changelog section on the homepage, probably upgrade Gambit. Mikael

2011/8/19 Vijay Mathew <mathew.vijay@gmail.com>
Hi Vasil,

Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately that does not work on Windows.
I will try on Linux and update you.

--Vijay

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:44 PM, vasil <vasil.s.d@gmail.com> wrote:
> gsc -exe hello.ss
> works fine, generating executable file hello.
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to generate an executable from a Scheme file:
>>
>>    ;; hello.ss
>>
>>    (display "hello world")
>>    (newline)
>>
>> On Ubuntu Linux (11.4, 32bit) with Gambit v4.2, I tried the following command:
>>
>> $ gsc -o hello -exe hello.ss
>>
>> It failed with a warning "misplaced option -exe".
>>
>> On Windows 7 (64bit) with Gambit v4.6.1, I get the following error:
>>
>> $ gsc -o hello.exe -exe hello.ss
>>
>> Access is denied.
>> Access is denied.
>> Access is denied.
>> *** ERROR IN ##for-each -- No such file or directory
>> (delete-file "C:\\Users\\VMathew\\Desktop\\hello.o")
>>
>> On both machines the gcc compiler is installed and is working properly.
>> I am following the directions at
>> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/doc/gambit-c.html#GSC
>>
>> What could be going wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Vijay
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