Re: Help needed Building static binaries on Windows

Subject: Re: Help needed Building static binaries on Windows
From: Milind Gupta &lt;milind.gupta@ ... &gt;
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:10:01 -0800

I have done this many times now on windows 10. The way I do it is first combine all my Lua script files into 1 file with https://github.com/aryajur/many2one.

Once I have 1 script file I use glue and srlua to create the executable. I compile srlua and glue using codeblocks. I have attached the setup file here. Hope this helps.

It also helps to check http://www.dependencywalker.com/ on the executable to package other dependency dll files with your executable.

Milind

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:32 AM Stefan Schroeder <ondekoza@gmail.com> wrote:

I have created a useful utility using Lua and the IUP GUI library that I want to share with my co-workers.

But I cannot expect them to install the Lua interpreter just for this tool. That's why I was looking for ways to build a
fat single executable.

I have tried everything:

I tried
luapak from https://github.com/jirutka/luapak
luastatic from https://github.com/ers35/luastatic
using
the lua-distros from
Luarocks: https://luarocks.org/
Luadist: http://luadist.org/
Luapower: https://luapower.com/

As a last resort I am trying srlua from
http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#srlua
But the Makefile is for Linux and Darwin only, I have tried to compile with Cygwin-Mingw,Gnuwin32-Mingw, TDM-GCC and had no success, although it was reported here:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-05/msg00379.html
that it would work.

I am looking for a step-by-step guide how to compile a Lua script into a Single executable binary in Windows 10.

Can please somebody walk me through it? I feel really stupid although I am a developer w/ 20 years experience (but new to Lua, though).

Regards
Stefan
Germany