Re: Compiling Lua 5.11 w/ Visual C++ 2005 Express (fwd)

[dennis@...]

That did the trick. Went under properties->advanced->Compile as C code and 
tried the resulting lua.lib in the other app.

No more linking errors.


I'm new to C++ and this compiler. Thank you for your insight! :)

- Dennis



On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Asko Kauppi wrote:

> 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
>
>
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