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1 point by squirrel 6165 days ago | link | parent | on: Unimpressed.

It works fine for me on Windows with none of the errors in the OP or the comments. See https://dev.youdevise.com/YDBlog/index.php?title=installing_... for what I did, but I just followed and summarised the instructions from other blogs already cited here.

Can services like apache or tomcat run on your machine and listen on ports 8080 or 80?

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2 points by fredfred 6165 days ago | link

Let me guess. You guys are running cygwin right?

For reasons I won't go into I can't. I'm attempting to get this running native. I can work around the date thing above by using library calls rather than shelling.

I suspect that the port problem is due to a difference defaults. I don't see 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' being explicitely stated anywhere, and maybe it needs to be.

And yes, I have a sufficiently authorised user profile. I occasionally run various http servers and I frequently create tcp & udp servers using Perl & D & Haskell etc.

This isn't a case of the port not being bound, it isn't getting that far, otherwise my firewall would be telling me that it is trying to act as a server and asking me to authorise it. This is failing in a system call due to parameter errors and is probably correctable at the source code level, but I can't find where.

I'm still decidely unimpressed with the error reporting though. I might just as well say: "Oops, summat's up!". if it isn't going to give some indication of where.

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1 point by squirrel 6164 days ago | link

This thread seems like it might be relevant: http://www.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2006-January/01... In particular, http://www.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2006-January/01... gives some links that look at least interesting.

The abstraction is clearly leaking though: we are having to dig into PLT when we want to talk Arc.

Maybe a MzScheme expert can help us - surely there is a debug mode of some kind that lets you see what code is being executed?

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2 points by fredfred 6164 days ago | link

Yes. This seems to be an MzScheme/setup problem and little to do with arc.

I still think the error reporting/traceback situation is abismal, but I accept that this is probably the wrong place to get help in getting arc to run for my scenario.

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1 point by squirrel 6164 days ago | link

And yes, we are using Cygwin, but I don't think it's needed (I turned it off and Arc still ran).

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