Re: [ANN] Lua For Windows v5.1.3.3 Public Alpha2 released

[Thomas Harning <harningt@...>]

On May 21, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Stefan wrote:
> MinGW is happier if you avoid VC DLLs altogether, and simply build  
> Lua from source using MinGW (or just use the Win32_mingw*_lib  
> LuaBinaries packages). You end up with a rock-solid, much smaller  
> set of Lua files that have no external dependencies. So small is it,  
> that I always statically link Lua when building under MinGW these  
> days.
The 'VC' dlls are always used...  MinGW just defaults to using  
msvcrt.dll which is technically VC6 and earlier.

Microsoft decided to be "backwards-compatible" at the bug-level when  
they upgrade the C runtime.  So you're stuck with tons of runtime  
choices:
 VC6's
 VC2002
 VC2003
 VC2005
 VC2008

Not to mention the additional options for each:
 +Debug/Release
 +SingleThreaded/MultiThreaded
 +Static/DLL

MinGW doesn't get you out of the runtime DLL woods in Windows... it  
just lets you not be tied to a specific runtime DLL per 'compiler  
version'.  The runtime DLL choice is available w/ different import  
libraries for which there's a tool out there to help manage this  
import library...