Re: Programming beginners' documentation

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

Ah, Lua Binaries!  For every other scripting language, there's a
standard incantation: python, perl, etc. But we have to deal with
'lua','lua5.1', etc.  And I won't get started on why 'lua51.dll' gets
mispelled as 'lua5.1.dll'...there, I feel better already.

Seriously though, as one of the culprits, I must say that SciTE could
do with a nicer installer.

steve d.

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Simon Beesley <simonbeesley@clara.co.uk> wrote:
> No wonder programming beginners are mystified.
>
>
>
> > - download wscite from
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/scite176.zip?download
> > - unzip somewhere
> > - double-click SciTE.exe
> >
>
>  This zip file doesn't contain SciTE.exe
>
>
>
> > - write:
> >  print("Hello, World!")
> > - save as hello.lua
> > - Press F5 /or Menu-Tools-Go
> >
>
>  You need to download Lua5.1.exe (from Lua Binaries) as well, but even if
>  you've done this and have got hold of the correct zip file
>  (wscite176.zip), Scite can't find Lua5.1, not even if you've placed it in
>  one of the environment paths. On my setup, it gives the error message
>  "The system cannot find the file specified."
>
>  wxLua, on the other hand, works very nicely. Go to
>
>  http://wxlua.sourceforge.net/download.php
>
>  and download wxLua-2.8.7.0-MSW-bin.zip. Unzip it somewhere and double-click
>  wxlua.exe. Simple as that -- and no error messages when you run your first
> Lua program.
>
>  Simon
>
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