luafilesystem makefile issue

[Julien MARBACH <jmh@...>]

hello,
I'm trying to install the Xavante webserver that has cgilua in its 
dependencies, and cgilua needs Luafilesystem. Compiling cgilua includes 
the build of luafilesystem. During the compilation of the luafilesystem 
files I encountered the following compilation errors : (in the "make 
cgi" process)

gcc -O2 -Wall -fPIC -W -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align 
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings 
-I/usr/local/include/lua5 -I../compat -dynamiclib  -o liblfs.1.0b.dylib 
lfs.o compat-5.1.o -llua -llualib -lm -ldl
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x18): In 
function `_start':
../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:98: undefined reference to `main'

My first thoughts where that there's no need for a main function while 
compiling what seems to be a shared library... So I investigated more 
deeply and found out that the "-dynamiclib" option was a "darwin"  (mac 
OSX) gcc option, and not a linux one. The equivalent for linux is 
"-shared". Using the -shared option in state of the -dynamiclib one 
solved the compilation problem.

I don't know if it is a concern for the luafilesystem guys or the cgilua 
ones... But I've seen that the luafilesystem/cgilua projects admin is 
active in this list, so i believe he will be interessed in this point. 
It's perhaps specified somewhere that the build process is made for 
darwin and not linux, but I've not seen this mentioned anywhere. The 
version of cgilua I'm uising is cgilua-5.0b2.

Thanks,

julien MARBACH