Re: Installing Lua

[Eero Pajarre <epajarre@...>]

Nick Trout wrote:

> > From: Eero Pajarre
> The actual package is in: 
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38461
> >
> > On that page take: luabuild-5.0.tgz
> >
> > The 
> > sourceforge page claims that the package is 
> > platform-independent source. Actually it is a Windows binary !?
>
>
> It is platform independent *source*. The *binaries* in LuaWin32.zip are
> for Windows. I should probably separate out the platform specific
> binaries. I made the tarball as a convenience for compiling and
> distributing Lua for myself and made it public. I was thinking of adding
> some C/C++ binding sample code to it as this seems a FAQ.

Hmmm, really odd... let me check... still only the lib and exe files, but
something is fishy here....

ARGH!!!

When Mozilla downloads the file it names it luabuild-5.0.tgz.gz
When I open that file with winzip it tells me it contains
luabuild-5.0.tgz, and when I open that (with Winzip) it only gives
me the binaries, no source files are shown.

If I rename the file back to to luabuild-5.0.tgz, Winzip opens it
ok. Of course also "tar xvfz" also gives the correct results.

So apparently I have found a bug in Winzip. Sorry for wrong information
in original message.


		Eero

PS. You might place the windows binaries as a separate package to sf
in any case.