Re: Module loading on Windows

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Ignacio Burgueño wrote:
> For instance, I'm building a rock that installs precompiled versions
> of lrexlib. It installs rex_pcre.dll where luarocks specified, and
> pcre.dll in the same directory. However, I can't require rex_pcre,
> because rex_pcre.dll depends on pcre.dll. This dependency isn't
> handled by a plain LoadLibrary. Windows performs a lookup using the
> usual rules. For it to work, with a vanilla Lua installation, I have
> to copy pcre.dll to somewhere in my PATH, or worse, to system32.

(Not replying to the main proposal but rather to the cited example).

If an lrexlib rock installs pcre.dll into the same directory as 
rex_pcre.dll, then the rock is wrong! pcre.dll should be either 
somewhere on Windows PATH, or in the directory where lua.exe resides.

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Shmuel