Re: Cygwin Target in Lua makefile

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Ben Kelly wrote:
> Ralph Hempel wrote:
> > Is there any desire (or benefit) to having a Cygwin target in
> > the main Lua makefiles?
> >
> > There are just enough differences between Cygwin, linux, generic
> > and mingw to make it seem worthwhile...
> >
> > Ralph
>
> In my experience, "make generic", "make ansi", "make posix" and "make
> linux" all work without modification on cygwin (although for "linux"
> you'll need to have readline and whatnot installed - they're in the
> cygwin packages but I forget if they're installed by default).
>
> How would a cygwin target differ from these?

I'm not sure that they build lua as a dll that can be used for
linking against other libraries such as LuaFilesystem, LuaSQL, and
LuaSocket.

The make install does not handle the dll correctly, as far as I can
tell under cygwin.

I really don't want to reinvent the wheel, but I've been fighting
with a consistent build structure for a Lua development environment
for a while now and I'm not entirely satisfied with anything.

At this point, I think the right approach (for me anyways) is to
build from source under cygwin using slightly modified makefiles
and then have a separate install script that cherry picks the resulting
objects, exes, dlls, docs, etc and populates the cygwin tree
appropriately.

Ralph