Sounds like something we need a chapter on this stuff. Carl? Ryan? -- Matthias
Begin forwarded message: > From: Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> > Date: February 18, 2009 8:15:10 AM EST > To: Filipe Cabecinhas <filcab at gmail.com> > Cc: plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu > Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] How to add a new language to DrScheme? > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Filipe Cabecinhas > <filcab at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm trying to add a new language to DrScheme. I've already >> implemented >> main.ss, lang/reader.ss and info.ss. (so require, #lang and >> DrScheme all >> work). But I don't have my module directory inside collects, so >> DrScheme >> won't see it (module... see it because I added it to that language's >> collects). How can I add this directory to DrScheme? Must I change an >> environment variable or can I do it by changing one or two files or >> configuring DrScheme for that? > > The way we used to do that was to distribute a .plt file. Nowadays, we > recommend using planet for that, but you'd have to issue a command to > download it after drscheme is installed. > >> Also, I want to distribute DrScheme with this language to some >> students >> for testing. Is there a way to create a minimized installer with only >> scheme, DrScheme, debug tools and my language? Mind that my language >> needs to use MysterX, so I need to run the scripts to register the >> dlls. >> And they're architecture students, so I can't just tell them to run >> regsrv32 mysterx.dll :-) > > If you go the planet route, then telling them to (require (planet > ...)) would also trigger running whatever code you'd want, and I > expect that code can go register the dlls? Unless DrScheme can't be > running at the time you do that, in which case you'd have to tell them > to run the command 'planet install ...', but is that beyond them? > > If you go the .plt route, the same thing applies; you can create a > .plt that runs some code when it is installed to set up the > environment. > > Robby > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
