Re: Lua DLLs?

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@...>]

Paul Smith wrote:

> I'll just give a little bit of feedback on this. It really may be 
> simpler just to build your own Lua DLL, or even statically link it. 

I want to do both dynamic linking and static linking and document the 
procedure in a user manual for a binding.  IME if people find it just a 
little hard to get things working quickly, they'll find something 
else... also the Ada binding is meant to be 100% portable and although 
it /should/ be, it probably isn't.  It might be impossible to do this, 
but if there are portability problems it should be simple things that 
can be eliminated(sp?) fairly easily.


> I
> was worried when I was going to start using Lua because I've used other 
> 'Unix' type components (eg SQLite, etc) which I've had quite a bit of 
> difficulty building in MSVC V5. However, Lua built with absolutely ZERO 
> problems (not 'just a few', but ZERO) on a plain vanilla MSVC V5 setup, 
> in about 3 seconds flat (the whole of Lua built in less time than some 
> of our C++ files individually). 

That's encouraging. :)  On second thoughts, any problems I have will be 
down to me messing up... I won't be able to blaim the tools. ;)

> Lua is written in plain ANSI C, so it'll
> compile on almost anything. It doesn't need Linux/GNU header files or 
> anything.
>
> You're probably finding it harder to use a pre-built DLL than you would 
> have found to build it yourself from scratch...

The problem is I've never built DLLs myself, and also I don't have MSVC. 
 I wonder if they can be built with MingW.  I'll look into it...


Thanks for the advice,
Chris