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

[Dan Wilckens]

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