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.
`cext-lib` contains much of the contents of `dynext`, which
is no longer very widely used.
Also moved the implementation of the `mzc` executable
to a more appropriate package.
Also, used `lazy-require` consistently for dynamically
loading implementations.
The range of values used to represent "improper lists"
of length 36 to 65 overlapped with the range of values
used to represent other things.
This bug is the new chapion of the "how did we not hit that
earlier?" category. The bug was introduced around v300, at
the latest.
