Re: Compiling pure Lua project into singe file

[Mike Crowe <mike@...>]

Frank,

I'm missing the unzip.h and iowin32.h in my Dev-cpp (gcc) distribution.  
Any suggestions on where I can get those libraries?

Mike

Frank Bechmann wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> sorry for the confusion - as I said it was quite a crude solution. I 
> wrote this functionality as "Add-On" to the standard srlua, so
>
> ad 1) it's the glue.exe that you build from glue.c in srlua, no 
> changes made here
>
> ad 2) yes, it's that glue.exe. I just added one source - srluaz.c - to 
> my very same srlua directory and use this one to build a srluaz.exe.
>  There are short instructions at the comment for main() in srluac.c, 
> but they have a slight error, so here are the correct ones:
>
> * Short instructions:
> *
> * To create a self running executable:
> * - one single lua file:
> *   glue srlua.exe foo.lua foo.exe
> * - multiple files stored in one zip file:
> *   glue srluaz.exe bar.zip bar.exe Z
> *
> * 'glue' is the unchanged executable as provided by the srlua package.
> * 'srlua' is the executable created from the unchanged srlua.c C module.
> * 'srluaz' is the executable created from this C module.
> *  ...
>
> Feel free to ask further questions,
>   Frank
>
> Mike Crowe wrote:
>
> > Frank,
> >
> > That's what I was looking for.  Questions:
> >
> > 1)  You appear to need glue.exe in your file, however, it's not there 
> > (or isn't in the archive in the message).
> > 2)  I found glue.exe in srlua project.  What's different between your 
> > mysrlua and srlua?
> >
> > TIA
> > Mike
> >
> > Frank Bechmann wrote:
> >
> > > 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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> >
> > In Him, Mike
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