Re: [Chicken-users] require-extension does not work in compiled code?

[Michele Simionato]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 14:55:35 +0100, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> The `(require-extension mylib)' is not completely correct.
> `require-extension' is intended to load centrally registered
> extensioni libraries and core library units on demand.
> It happens to work for .scm files, when they are accessible
> in the current include path.
> The `(require-extension mylib)' in the example above finds the
> local mylib.scm and loads/evaluates it. But the evaluator in
> compiled code supports only the most basic syntactic forms
> (and not `require-extension'). In that case require-extension is
> treated as any other function call, it's arguments are evaluated,
> and... the variable `regex' is not defined.
> You can use `(require 'regex)' instead

uhm ... I thought (require-extension regex) was the same as (require 'regex)
but evidently it is not the case

> or you can compile mylib
> to a shared object (csc mylib.scm -s) - require extension will
> find and load the .so, and compiled code has access to all
> extra macros.
> 
> cheers,
> felix

It works but it does not work:

$ csc main       
Error: illegal character in line 2: #\}

*** Shell command terminated with exit status 70:
/usr/local/bin/chicken main -output-file main.c -quiet

In spite of the error message

$ main
string-match is there#<procedure>

seems to work. Where is the illegal character coming from? 

              Michele Simionato