Re: LuaBinaries and the RTL DLL for 5.2

[David Burgess <dabsoft@...>]

3 points to add -
1. May I remind you that msvcrt.dll is the only one supplied by the OS.
2. I use GNU Make 3.81 to build regardless of VC compiler version. GNU 
make runs on just about everything.
3.see http://www.zlib.net/DLL_FAQ.txt

On 16/1/2010 3:51 AM, Enrico Colombini wrote:
> Antonio Scuri wrote:
> > Visual C++ Express edition is a free fully featured IDE.
>
> Last time I looked (2005) the free edition forced the usage of manifests
> [*]; I was never able to extricate myself from the bureaucracy and build
> a portable executable.
> ([*] Actually there was a hairy hack to link VC free with msvcrt,
> implying some hundred MB of extra stuff and hand-changing of many
> project settings)
>
> Probably because of my clumsiness (and allergy to most Microsoft tools)
> I've never been able to compile Lua additional libraries with the free
> VC, especially not with the provided makefiles, so I had to resort to
> recompiling the world (Lua + all the libs I needed) with mingw32.
> (I never understood manifests too, despite much reading... I was very
> glad to having to work mostly on embedded targets)
>
> I'd be very happy to see a free, standard way to compile Lua and
> libraries to produce portable executables/DLLs on Windows.
>
> Enrico