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1 point by listic 5796 days ago | link | parent

What prevents lib from working on Windows?


1 point by CatDancer 5796 days ago | link

Presumably forward slashes in URL's would need to be changed to backslashes to store the library file in the lib directory with the corresponding path. (MzScheme has some platform-independent path manipulation procedures that could be used if they turn out to be convenient).

Also, is there a version of wget for Windows? What are the instructions for installing it that should be added to the lib documentation? Would the lib code need to invoke wget differently?

There may be some other things too, those are the ones that occur to me off the top of my head.

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1 point by eds 5787 days ago | link

There is a version of wget for Windows; you can get it from either Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) or GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/). You can download the wget binary by itself at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm .

I don't normally have any problems with forward/backward slashes on Windows (but I use Cygwin a lot, so my perspective may be biased).

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1 point by CatDancer 5786 days ago | link

So does the current version of lib work as it is with Cygwin and wget installed on Windows? Or is Cygwin even needed?

(I said that "Windows is not supported" but it would be more accurate to say that I haven't tried it with Windows).

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