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Are you compiling it as C++?  Lua compiles both as ANSI C and as  
valid C++, it does _not_ declare its external functions extern "C" as  
most others do. This is by purpose.
You may use the etc/lua.hpp header, to have the extern declarations.

-asko


dennis@demarco.com kirjoitti 17.9.2006 kello 23.27:

Hello all,


I'm having some difficulty creating a Static Libary (lua.lib) in Visual C++ 2005 using Lua 5.11 and compiling it from source.
When I compile Lua and get the lua.lib it seems to generate the  
library.. If I use that lib to link with a test program I get the  
following errors:
luaadd.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _lua_close  
referenced in function _main
unresolved external symbol _lua_settop referenced in function "int  
__cdecl luaadd(int,int)" (?luaadd@@YAHHH@Z)
and a bunch of other errors of missing symbols.


As a test, I downloaded the lua5_1_Win32_vc8.tar and used lua5.1.lib in my test program and it linked fine and worked.
What am I doing wrong when I compile the static lib from scratch?

I'm rather confused, as I was able to compile it as an executable and run some of the test.lua scripts fine (lua.exe) When I change the option to lib it seems it is leaving out some important symbols. Is there something I'm missing in the project file?

Thank you for your time,
Dennis