Re: Lua DLL name (Was: [ANN] LuaODE 0.3)

[Mike Pall <mikelu-0703@...>]

Hi,

Antonio Scuri wrote:
>   BTW, only the mingw build uses that name.

The name lua51.dll was agreed upon in a mailing list discussion
in April 2005. The mingw build target and etc/luavs.bat reflect
the consensus of this discussion. Please check the list archives.

>   The standard Makefiles available in LuaBinaries correct this.

Err, no. LuaBinaries deviates from the standard. :-)

>   But when building development platforms in Windows, the problem arises.
> The module need to link to the Lua DLL.

Exactly my words:
  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-04/msg00019.html

>   So to sync the DLL name from the standard Lua distribution and LuaBinaries
> seems to be a good idea.

Absolutely! Please, go ahead. :-)

Bye,
     Mike