Creating an executable with embedded DLLs means that the executable
can be truly stand-alone, instead of needing to be kept with its
DLLs in a relative subdirectory.
DLL embedding works by bypassing the OS's LoadLibrary and
GetProcAddress functions, and instead maps the DLL into memory
and performs relocations explicitly. Joachim Bauch's MemoryModule
(Mozilla license) implements those steps.
This commit merges changes that were developed in the "racket7" repo.
See that repo (which is no longer modified) for a more fine-grained
change history.
The commit includes experimental support for running Racket on Chez
Scheme, but that "CS" variant is not built by default.
Although "macOS" is the correct name for Apple's current desktop OS,
we've decided to go with "Mac OS" to cover all of Apple's Unix-like
desktop OS versions. The label "Mac OS" is more readable, clear in
context (i.e., unlikely to be confused with the Mac OSes that
proceeded Mac OS X), and as likely to match Apple's future OS names
as anything.
Add a hook to `raco setup` to make copies of installed executables,
where the copies start with the configuration or addon directory
of creation time, instead of the default installation or user-specific
path.
Although the same effect can be achived by setting environment
variables such as PLTADDONDIR, tethered executables can be easier
to work with and compose better with other programs.
See also #1206 for some discussion, although this change does
not exactly address the original idea there.
