[gambit-list] Help with creating executable.

Vijay Mathew mathew.vijay at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 03:02:30 EDT 2011


I upgraded to 4.6 on Linux and it works fine now. Thanks for your help!

--Vijay

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Vijay Mathew <mathew.vijay at gmail.com> wrote:
> The command:
>
> $ gsc -exe hello.ss
>
> worked on Windows with MingW. Previously I was trying with Cygwin.
>
> I am still struggling on Linux. What is the command line switch that
> will print the help for the compiler?
> I tried -h and --help and gsc won't accept them.
>
> --Vijay
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Mikael <mikael.rcv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2011/8/19 Vijay Mathew <mathew.vijay at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> 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".
>>
>> 4.2 = too old, upgrade.
>>
>>>
>>> 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")
>>
>> Uh. Check what C compiler Gambit is set up to use, if you're using Mingw
>> Gambit it might be wanting to use MSVC?
>> Furthermore, ensure you have the appropriate filesystem privileges, maybe
>> run Gambit (so, cmd) as administrator and try out. When you got it working,
>> let the ML know how you solved it.
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Brgds
>>
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