Re: [ANN] Lua For Windows v5.1.3.7 Public Alpha4 released

["Andrew Wilson" <agrwagrw@...>]

I agree with you Ryan.

Lua Scripting for Windows is focused on removing any install or usage
barriers so that Windows Users can give Lua a try without any real
effort.

Admitted C API & extension/embedding is a huge Lua strength. And
having source available is another strength of Lua and it library
packages. But Lua Binaries and the libraries themselves already
explain very well how to extend/embed Lua but what they don't have is
a trivially easy install package. Note the install script that
generates this install is being included with the install, so custom
packages can be created.

Given main effort is to remove barriers, then yes LuaGL .dll needs to
be added to package.

Agreed LuaRocks should also be added to package, but it'll be later
because we can only do so much, even given limited focus of making an
easy to install/use Lua Scripting under Windows.

Andrew

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:31 AM, RJP Computing <rjpcomputing@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:07 AM, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:
>>
>> It should contain all files that may be needed to compile a library from
>> source.
>>  This includes lua.h, lauxlib.h, lualib.h, luaconf.h, lua.hpp,
>> lua5.1.lib/lua51.lib, and lua5.1.def/lua51.def (the lib/def are not always
>> strictly necessary, such as when compiling under ming, but they're useful
>> to
>> have for the default compiler).
>
> Well I think this could come in future releases, but for now that doesn't
> fit the scope of what this project is all about. This distro is to write
> applications and utilities in Lua, not help the developer emmbed Lua in
> there application. I am not oppossed to disscussing this, but for now, at
> least until the official version 1.0 is out, we are not takling that part of
> Lua.
>
>>
>> I recommend adding OpenGL libraries, such as LuaGL[1].  One of the IUP
>> examples
>> (examples\iup\ctrl\iupglcanvas\luagl.lua) even depends on this.
>
> I believe that example works on my machine without LuaGL. Does it for you? I
> added LuaGL to the todo list.
>
>> It would be nice if all the modules could be compiled from source (and
>> their
>> test suites run) in one shot, but maybe that is the responsibility of
>> LuaRocks.
>
> Yes I think that LuaRocks can fill this request. Our plans for LuaRocks
> integration is not until the first release is out. Plus a bit more work
> needs to happen before I think LuaRocks is ready for Windows. It is close
> though. Also I think the idea that a user needs to build most of the rocks
> is a problem for a user. This works great on Linux and Mac, but on wndows it
> makes the user install a compiler. That seems counter intuitive to me,
> because we are creating a full distro of Lua as the main language, not make
> it easy to develop C applictaions that use Lua.
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan
> RJP Computing
>