Re: Building extensions with mingw against LuaBinaries

[Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@...>]

steve donovan wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I know this has been raised, but I seem to be following a recipe that
> doesn't work ;)
>
> Mingw can link against the msvcrt80.dll runtime shipped with
> LuaBinaries by using -lmsvcr80. That's fine, and something like lfs
> compiles. dumpbin tells me that luaopen_lfs is indeed exported, but I
> get 'the specified procedure could not be found', which seems to
> indicate that it could not find luaopen_lfs, or had some obscure
> problem with it.

When dealing with that kind of problems, the first thing I do is to 
first check the module dependencies, using Dependency Walker:
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

If dependencies are ok, then I run the failing test case with Process 
Monitor running on the background:
http://live.sysinternals.com/Procmon.exe

With Process Monitor, you'll get a trace of system activity (process and 
threads creation / destruction, disk access, registry access, etc) for 
all processes, so you'll have to filter the output.

Hope this helps

Ignacio Burgueño