Installing Lua 5.1.1 on mingw error

["Austin Xu Wang" <xu4wang@...>]

Hello,

I was trying to build lua on mingw/mysys but failed, make complained
for  "invalid option --a" .

Do I need to change something in lua package?

Thanks,
Austin

---------Following is some information about the errors and mingw I
installed------------------------

$ make mingw
cd src && C:/msys/1.0/mingw/bin/make.exe mingw
C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe[1]: Entering directory `d:/tmp/lua-5.1.1/src'
C:/msys/1.0/mingw/bin/make.exe "LUA_A=lua51.dll" "LUA_T=lua.exe" \
"AR=gcc -shared -o" "RANLIB=strip --strip-unneeded" \
"MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_BUILD_AS_DLL" "MYLIBS=" "MYLDFLAGS=-s" lua.exe
C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe: invalid option -- a
C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe: unrecognized option `--strip-unneeded '
Usage: C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe [options] [target] ...
Options:
 -b, -m                      Ignored for compatibility.
 -B, --always-make           Unconditionally make all targets.


The make version is:

$ make --version
GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The Mingw packages I installed are:

AXW@AXW-01 /d/software/mingw
$ ls -l
total 8120
-rwxr-xr-x    1 AXW   Administ  2808061 Dec 12 13:01 MSYS-1.0.10.exe
-rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ  6160640 Dec 12 13:00
binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ  3515620 Dec 12 12:57
gcc-core-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ   348713 Dec 12 12:27 mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x    1 AXW   Administ  1303940 Dec 12 14:04 mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.exe
-rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ   950504 Dec 12 12:34
mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ  1536427 Dec 12 12:27 w32api-3.6.tar.gz