Re: Luafilesystem problem

["Jérôme Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2007/5/21, Steve Heller <steveheller@sbcglobal.net>:
> I can't seem to get the luafilesystem library to work.
> No matter what I do, I get a popup message that says
> "The application has failed to start because
> lua.5.1.dll was not found. Re-installing the
> application may fix the problem." When I click "OK", I
> get the following:
>
> lua: error loading module 'lfs' from file
> 'D:\dev\lua\lua-5.1\src\lfs.dll':
>         The specified module could not be found.
>
> stack traceback:
>         [C]: ?
>         [C]: in function 'require'
>         dirtest.lua:1: in main chunk
>         [C]: ?
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can get this to work?
> Obviously it is on Windows.

How did you build lua and lfs ? What version of Lua and lfs are you using ?

It seems that your lfs.dll is looking for lua.5.1.dll, and your lua
dll has a different name (probably lua5.1.dll or lua51.dll). To fix
the problem you can either create a special forwarding dll called
lua.5.1.dll that will forward all calls to your dll (whatever its
name), or you can rebuild lfs and/or lua to have them use matching dll
names.