Re: Compiling pure Lua project into singe file

[Frank Bechmann <fBechmann@...>]

This is the 1st thing I wanted to have in Lua, so I came up w/ a quite 
crude solution, see there:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-01/msg00056.html

Limitations are described there.
If you need the sources just drop me a mail.

Regards, Frank

Mike Crowe wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> This is probably very easy, but I can't seem to see how to do it.  I 
> have a complete project of ~12 .lua files that I want to distribute.  
> Windows platform.  Assume destination has lua.exe and luac.exe
>
> I thought the answer was to:
>    luac -o myfile.luac file1.lua file2.lua file3.lua .... file12.lua
>
> That creates "myfile.luac" that appears to be all the files together.
>
> However, if I copy this file to a new directory, and execute:
>    lua myfile.luac
>
> I get an error like:
> lua: cannot read compat.lua: No such file or directory
> stack traceback:
>        [C]: in function `dofile'
>        all.lua:9: in main chunk
>        (luac): in main chunk
>        [C]: ?
>
> (compat.lua is one of the files in my project).
>
> What am I missing here?
> TIA
> Mike 



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