Re: [Chicken-users] Nevermind--Re: Problem with read-line

[Dan Wilckens]

On 12/5/2013 5:50 PM, Dan Wilckens wrote:
On 12/4/2013 7:01 PM, Dan Wilckens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I built Chicken 4.8.0.5 from source on the mingw-msys platform (under 
> > windows vista).  After attempting to port and debug a program I wrote 
> > originally for Gambit scheme it seems that I've run into an issue 
> > with the read-line command.  Specifically, if I type
> >
> > (display read-line)
> >
> > in the interpreter it prints #<procedure...  ># as you would expect.  
> > But if I write the exact same command into a blank file, Test.scm, 
> > and compile it with gsc, running it only prints:
> >
> > Error: unbound variable: read-line
> >
> > I really can't figure this out if it's anything other than a bug. 
> > FWIW I chicken-installed sfri-34.  I think the other two extensions I 
> > use (sfri-69 and irregex) were already installed. Thanks for any help 
> > you can provide!
> >
> > Dan
> Apparently I had to (require-extension extras) since those functions 
> are not included in csc by default as the are in csi.
> I didn't catch that at first in the documentation.  It's a little bit 
> confusing though to have it work in csi but not csc.  Sorry for any 
> effort you might have expended...
> Dan
Thanks for all the replies, folks.   Good to know that there's an 
helpful active community here if I run into another issue (I'll join the 
list if so)--
Dan