I am trying to resurrect an old (1999 or earlier) project written in a Scheme (PLT-Scheme using the command line tool mzscheme(?)). To make matters worse, I don't know Schemas, or Lisp (in fact, I want to learn, but that's a different story).
I have the project source code:
github.com/akavel/sherman
Now, when the code is run, it is issued with an error message, as shown below:
Sherman runtime version 0.5
Hosted on MzScheme version 52, Copyright (c) 1995-98 PLT (Matthew Flatt)
reference to undefined identifier: list->block
(I tried versions of PLT-Scheme 52, 53, 103, 103p1. Earlier versions do not allow the option mzscheme -Lreferenced in the sherman.batscript used in the project. Later versions also have some more serious problems with the code or parameters.)
The difficulty is that from what I see, list->blockin factdefined - see: collects/sherman/BLOCK.SSline 48 . So what's wrong?
To run the code, I follow these steps:
- Download PLT-Scheme v. 103p1 (from the download page of old versions - the first closing of the PLT Scheme banner is now Racket) - for Windows use: mz-103p1-bin-i386-win32.zip .
- Unzip (for example, to a directory
c:\PLT). - Copy the
c:\sherman\collects\shermancontents directory to: c:\PLT\collects\sherman(which c:\shermancontains the contents of the github repository ). - Run
cmd.exe, then cd c:\sherman. set PATH=c:\PLT;%PATH%sherman.bat run trivial.s- this command is actually, from what I understand, equivalent:
(require-library "runtime.ss" "sherman")
(parameterize ((current-namespace sherman-namespace)) (load "trivial.s"))
(current-namespace sherman-namespace)
- , ( MzScheme 103p1 - ).
?
2: !
, " " , soegaard help.
:
copy trivial.s trivial.rs
rem (the above is workaround for problems with 'r2s.exe < trivial.r > trivial.rs')
sherman.bat compile trivial.rs
sherman.bat run trivial.zo
rem (or: sherman.bat run trivial.ss)