After building OCaml 3.11.2 from source on Cygwin 1.72 I tried running ocamlbrowser and got the error: Fatal error: exception Protocol.TkError("Can’t find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: C:/cygwin/share/tcl8.4 C:/cygwin/home/rettkeg/ocaml/build/ocaml-3.11.2/share/tcl8.4 C:/cygwin/home/rettkeg/ocaml/build/ocaml-3.11.2/usr/share/tcl8.4 C:/cygwin/home/rettkeg/o The solution is can be found here: export TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/share/tcl8.4
Switching back to Windows XP from the Mac has been educational. Along with learning a lot more about Cygin than I had ever known before, I’m discovering new features-to-be-avoided in Windows XP. Here is a biggie: “Run As”. Windows allows you to execute programs with another user’s credentials. You are probability thinking “Simple right?”. Well, [...]
While not left without questions I did get OpenGL running correctly with Ikarus over the weekend. Here is the patch file against trunk to make it happy.
Over the weekend I needed to set up a R6RS Scheme interpreter on Cygwin. It came down to either PLT or Ikarus. Both seem to be straightforward builds but I couldn’t make PLT happy so I went with Ikarus instead. It was a very simple and straightforward configuration and took maybe a minute to build. [...]
In Spring of 2010 I am taking two classes: MSCS 6020: Simulation (syllabus) and MSCS 6060: Parallel & Distributed Systems (syllabus).
In the early 2000s Sun published The Java Developers Almanac. It was a basically a listing of code snippets explaining how to perform the most common operations that developers might want to accomplish at his “day job”. You can find examples of the examples here. It was great for the language; it made it easy [...]
The experience of the delight of learning is such a wonderful thing. Have you felt it lately? How?
Was it a happy-accident that glass drinking glasses have been in use for hundreds of years and they don’t leach any dangerous chemicals into their contents and thus into our bodies? Did that lull us into false sense of security where we assume that drinking container vendors would only provide us with things that would [...]
Here is a collection of email lists for some popular Scheme distributions. There are plenty of indexes of Scheme distributions out there; but all that I wanted was a convenient index to all of the active email lists.