Chez Scheme is a self-hosting compiler: building it requires ``boot files'' containing the Scheme-implemented portions compiled for the current platform. (Chez can then cross-compile boot files for all other supported platforms.)

The Racket package cs-bootstrap (part of the main Racket Git repository) implements enough of a Chez Scheme simulation to load the Chez Scheme compiler purely from source into Racket and apply the compiler to itself, thus bootstrapping Chez Scheme. Bootstrapping takes about 10 times as long as using an existing Chez Scheme, but cs-bootstrap supports Racket 7.1 and later, including the Racket BC variant.