The new flags can be used to make an embedded module's name
predicatable, which is useful for making a deserialization format
stable (i.e., `serializable-struct` creates a serializer that uses the
embedded module name). This functionality was already available from
`create-embedding-executable`, but there was no way to reach it via
`raco exe`.
When a stand-alone executable created by `raco exe` needs to load
modules that start with a `#lang` line, there have been various
obstacles to adding the right run-time support via `++lib`. The
`++lang` flag addresses those problems and makes it easy to indicate
that enough should be embedded to support loading modules with a
specified language.
There are problems in the way that various handlers interact for the
"lang/reader.rkt" versus `(submod "." reader)` search path that
converts a language name to a reader. To accomodate the search in a
standalone executable (that does not provide access to collections in
general), the module name resolver must refrain from raising an
exception for a non-existent submodule path that refers to a
non-existent collection.
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.
