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

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

Ohh, missed the point, yes including those pieces makes sense. Goal is
similar to Active script languages.  AGRW

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:08 PM, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:31 AM, RJP Computing wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:07 AM, David Manura 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
>> >
>> > 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.
>
> The concern was more for extension (of Lua apps and utilities) rather than
> embedding.  I'm not arguing for the inclusion of internal source files such a
> lua.c and lmem.h but rather only what is analogous to the files in the "include"
> and "libs" directories in ActivePython (which I think has similar goals to Lua
> for Windows).
>
> As a case in point, I needed the LuaGL DLL to run an example, but I didn't have
> a binary, so I proceeded to compile that DLL from source.  To compile it from
> source required having lua.h and luaconf.h around.  Now, it's unclear which
> version of luaconf.h is compatible with the lua.exe in Lua for Windows since
> each build of lua.exe can have a customized version of luaconf.h.  So, I grabbed
> these files from somewhere else and hoped for the best (probably, it would have
> been best to use LuaBinaries, but there are many builds of LuaBinaries too).
>
>> >> 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.
>
> Hm..I got an error that "gl" was nil.  Building an opengl.dll and doing "require
> 'opengl'" resolved it.  I also tried some external glut examples (without IUP)
> but got crashes (though possibly something in my compile/link wasn't right, as I
> didn't find a Makefile in the LuaGL distribution).
>
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