Re: Compiling LUA

[Mattias Helsing <helsing72@...>]

Hi all,

I have the start of a cmake build system for Lua. It is part of the
CMakePorts project, see http://code.google.com/p/cmakeports. I would
be happy to also contribute the CMakeLists to the Lua project.
I'm no Lua developer myself so there may well be bits and pieces in
the Lua code that slipped. The build system is working nicely though
and I have compiled static and shared libraries on both linux (Ubuntu)
and windows (msvc80&msvc90).

Any chance such a contribution would be accepted?

With all the humility that is appropriate when pushing CMake in
autotools forums :-)
Mattias

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, KHMan <keinhong@gmail.com> wrote:
> William Pursell wrote:
>>
>> KHMan wrote:
>>>
>>> William Pursell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Miles Bader wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> William Pursell <...> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem is that the lua makefiles are built with
>>>>>> the assumption that the readline library is always
>>>>>> available under linux.  This is a packaging error,
>>>>>> and should be reported as a bug.
>>>>>
>>>>> Given that it's a simple makefile, what do you expect?
>>>>>
>>>>> They target a "typical" system (of each type), and if yours is
>>>>> different, you edit the makefile..
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>> Life would be much easier if one could build
>>>> the system by passing arguments to a configure
>>>> script rather than editing Makefiles and luaconf.h
>>>
>>> Well then, can you, or someone contribute a configure setup and put it
>>> on the Lua wiki?
>>>
>>> I don't believe I've seen a configure setup for Lua yet, perhaps there
>>> is a real dearth of automake/autoconf talent around these parts... We
>>> need a automake/autoconf guru to save us unwashed barbarians! :-)
>>
>> Here's a quick configure.ac and src/Makefile.am that produced
>> reasonable results for me. [snip]
>
> Beautiful, this should be on the Lua wiki right away. A configure file would
> be even better, but I guess now is a good time as any to get myself to
> re-read the autobook and try it out.
>
>> If anyone feels like this would actually be worthwhile,
>> I'd be willing to spend some time working on it, but
>> I'm of the mind that it's really not...I suspect most
>> people copy the source files and compile them into
>> their projects rather than linking against an installed
>> liblua.  (At least, that's what I'm doing...but I've only
>> just started looking at Lua)
>
> I guess most end-users of configure scripts like myself just treat configure
> scripts as arcane magic. We train just enough grey cells to type
> './configure' and hit [Enter]. :-)
>
> I think the Lua wiki is a good home for the auto* files, and any discussions
> on the list can point to and update the wiki page. Perhaps a new discussion
> thread should be started as well.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
> Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
>