Re: Lua script to Windows or DOS executable?

[The Doctor <the_doctor@...>]

Thankyou. :)

It works fine. I also found, while hunting stuff, a Lua 5 compiled 
for Windows, which was useful in reporting errors as I fumbled. Lua 5 
is a lot different from Lua 4. I missed writeto() and appendto(), but 
found some nice new ones:

io.write("zoodle\n")
io.output("X.txt")
io.write("wurdle\n")
--io.output(stdout) still haven't worked this one out yet.. :)
io.write("thingit\n")
io.close()

A bit sad, maybe, but it sounded better than hello world. >:)
Now all I need to figure out is how to return the flow to stdout, 
which is a really nice default, btw.
This is now good for file splitters, combiners, patchers, custom made 
replacements for TextPad macros, and such, so already a big increase 
in power just having this as it is, though that vision I had of a 
means to address any part of the 25 by 80 characters of a DOS window, 
and a means to prompt for user input, echoed to screen,  while the 
program runs, and even a bit of colour use in the output to screen, 
would make an awesome means for fast development in Windows. Colour 
might sound a tad fancy, but I think it's probably one of the best 
ways to convey information in a limited space especially in the 
absense of graphics...




Eric Tetz <erictetz@gmail.com> wrote:
(25/08/2004 00:43)

>
>The Doctor wrote:
>> The ideal would be as easy as:
>> MakeLua.exe  Infile.lua  Outfile.exe
>
>I wrote it, just to try it out.
>
>http://tetzfamily.com/eric/code/lua2exe.exe
>
>Usage: lua2exe myscript.lua
>
>This outputs 'a.exe', which has your script bound to
>Lua 5.0.2 built with MSVC 6.0 with all the
>optimizations turned on. I did this in-between
>meetings, so it's very quick and dirty, but it works on my machine.
>
>It would be really easy to add a console control
>library (I have one written for Lua in Windows
>already), or better yet, to implement loadlib
>support. But I'm on the way to another meeting...
>so... tomorrow. ;)
>
>Cheers,
>Eric