Re: lua system interaction on win

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

David Burgess wrote:
> On VC6, Lua 4.0.1
> from the project menu
> Goto - "Project/Settings"
> Tab - "C/C++"
> Select "All configurations"
> Edit field - "Preprocessor definitions"
>
> and paste at the end of the existing string
> (which should already have something like "WIN32,_CONSOLE,_MBCS")
> POPEN,popen=_popen,pclose=_pclose

Hecck, this is cool!
all problems solved w/o changing the code.

For the record:
standard Lua compiled with MSVC++6 on Windows can absolutely do pipes.

Lua 4.0  Copyright (C) 1994-2000 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio
> readfrom("|dir")
> o=read("*a")
> print(o)
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 085E-9F45

 Directory of D:\_ins\lua\src\lua\bin

21.08.2002  08:59       <DIR>          .
21.08.2002  08:59       <DIR>          ..
21.08.2002  08:59              198.972 LibLua.lib
21.08.2002  08:59              125.462 LibLuaLib.lib
29.11.2001  12:39               80.384 Lua+Lib.dll
29.11.2001  12:39               11.708 Lua+Lib.exp
29.11.2001  12:39               18.726 Lua+Lib.lib
29.11.2001  12:39               53.760 Lua.dll
21.08.2002  08:59               93.696 Lua.exe
29.11.2001  12:39                8.740 Lua.exp
29.11.2001  12:39               14.000 Lua.lib
29.11.2001  12:39               38.400 LuaC.exe
29.11.2001  12:39               33.792 LuaLib.dll
29.11.2001  12:39                3.479 LuaLib.exp
29.11.2001  12:39                6.128 LuaLib.lib
29.11.2001  12:39               52.218 luaSocket.lib
29.11.2001  12:39               12.498 lxp.lib
              15 File(s)        751.963 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   6.027.014.144 bytes free

>

Thanks so very much for such a simple solution!
-Martin