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...
