LUA 5.1.1 in Visual Studio 2005

[Jon Radoff <admin@...>]

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 (MSVC++ 8).

First, I should note that I was able to get Lua 5.0.3
to compile rather easily.  It took about ten minutes
of work, setting up the solution file.  It compiles
and links fine, and I can use the "lua" interpreter
without any apparent issues.

5.1.1 is another story.  I'm able to get it to compile
fine, but the "lua" program won't work properly.  I
get the following message:

LUA: unable to get ModuleFileName

I composed a simple test program, which produces a
similar problem.  See below...

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#include <stdio.h>

extern "C" {
#include "lua.h"
#include "lualib.h"
#include "lauxlib.h"
}

/* the Lua interpreter */
lua_State* L;

int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
 /* initialize Lua */
 L = lua_open();

 /* load all libraries */

 luaL_openlibs(L); 

 /* cleanup Lua */
 lua_close(L);

 return 0;
}

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This produces the following (similar) output:

PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (unable to
get ModuleFileName)

Other notes:

I'm using static linking in both 5.0.3 and 5.1.1.  I
don't see any differences.

Can anyone share some suggestions, or perhaps a Visual
Studio 2005 solution file for building 5.1.1?  (It
appears that the solutions files for MSVC that are
linked to from the LUA website are specific to 5.0.x).

Jon