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LAML Installation on Windows

It is easy to install LAML and SchemeDoc on Windows 2000 and Windows XP provided that you adhere to a few conventions:

  1. You use a recent version of PLT as your Scheme system (preferably version 205, 206, 207, 208 or 209) and install it in C:\programs\. You can use PLT version 299, but as of June 2005, PLT version 205-209 is preferred.

  2. You install LAML or SchemeDoc in C:\programs\

Thus you will need the following organization (for LAML and SchemeDoc respectively):

C:                        C:
 programs                   programs
    ...                        ...
    PLT                        PLT
       ...                       ...
       MzScheme.exe              MzScheme.exe
       ...                       ...
    laml                       schemedoc
       bin                       bin
       lib                       lib
       ...                       ...

Notice the use of the programs directory instead of Program Files. In general, the latters causes problems for Unix related software (such as Emacs).

It can also be recommended to install GNU Emacs in C:/Programs, but it is not necessary; Emacs can be installed in a directory of your choice.

If you adhere to the conventions from above, you can install LAML by executing

in the downloaded LAML distribution, or just by activating (opening)

from Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.

 
Kurt Nørmark
normark@cs.aau.dk
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~normark/