Install issues on Windows / WSL
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I'm stoked to try out Quad as I'm at the start of a new Pollen project that requires PDF output. I tried to get some highly elegant functions borrowed from TFL (such as make-list-function) to work in terms of Latex output, which was difficult, and I thought that Quad will probably be a more natural fit for Pollen source code, given that it's based on Q-expressions, which I think must be more similar to S-expressions than is the language of Latex. If I can avoid the whole Latex route it would be a gift.
Installing in Windows
I had trouble installing Quad. At the end of the install it said a package couldn't be found:
ffi-lib: couldn't open "C:\\Program Files\\Racket\\lib\\libfreetype-6.dll" (The specified module could not be found.; errid=126)
There were also several warnings which I've stored in a gist.
To see if Quad was going to work anyway, I tried processing the test.rkt file from the Quad docs. It did not run, but again complained that libfreetype cannot be found.
Installing in WSL
I have read of a Pollen user who couldn't install Joel Dueck's try-pollen say that a similar issue (though with a different package) is solved by not using Racket in Windows, but in the Windows Subsystem for Linux. I tried this, and the installer no-longer complained about a lack of libfreetype. However, I noticed several messages during install for the package xenomorph, seeing bad syntax many times. The install completed with warnings (see this gist).
On testing it with the same test.rkt file, the following is returned:
racket test.rkt
/home/me/.racket/6.11/pkgs/xenomorph/xenomorph/int.rkt:76:6: for/fold/derived: bad syntax
in: (for/fold/derived (for/fold ((bs null) (val (exact-if-possible val)) #:result (apply bytes ((if (eq? @endian (quote be)) values reverse) bs))) ((i (in-range @size))) (values (cons (bitwise-and val 255) bs) (arithmetic-shift val -8))) ((bs null) (val (ex...
I have run raco pkg update --update-deps quad to see that no updates are available.
Sorry for the length of this issue. I would be happy to get this working either in Windows or WSL. I feel that WSL may actually be more pain-free in the long-term, but any working version of Quad would be great.
I’ll take a look. As I’ve indicated elsewhere I’m a bit of a Windows rube but these errors should be enough to muddle through.
Thank you. Please let me know if I can do anything to help.
Oh, I see the problem. 6.11 is too old. I think 6.12 will suffice. But I only test against 7.1 and above.
Yep, that's it. It's working now I've upgraded. I didn't know that the default Ubuntu repository was so far out of date.
The test file is now working in WSL, which is great. Thank you!