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More on running Arc under Windows
6 points by andyn 5924 days ago | 3 comments
(maybe there shouldn't be the space between the first two words there ;-)

Anyhow, while trying to run blog.arc under windows I ran into a few things so I thought I'd post them here to save people some grief.

1) openssl - I had it complaining about not being able to find openssl. I'm not sure if this is a result of not running it from the right location because gzscheme is supposed to come with this, but getting a windows openssl binary exe solved this. ( http://www.stunnel.org/download/binaries.html )

2) date - The only other problem was with a date checking routine; line 1204 in arc.arc. It calls the unix "date" command which on windows just sits there expecting you enter a new date causing that thread to hang. I haven't figured out a workaround for this, something perhaps involving the builtin Scheme file-modified-checker-command-thing could do the job.

Otherwise it works.



1 point by kennytilton 5923 days ago | link

Hunh. I had to create a couple of directories, now I am stuck on: open-output-file: cannot open output file "C:\arc0\arc/logs/srv-".

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1 point by andyn 5923 days ago | link

There's still some work to do - Have a peek at the (system ...) statements, there's some *nix specific calls in there to do with logging.

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2 points by hollyking 5924 days ago | link

Thanks for the link to the binaries!

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