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- Subject: Re: Building lua on windows
- From: Fabio Mascarenhas <mascarenhas@...>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:20:44 -0200
Lua for Windows (
http://luaforwindows.luaforge.net/) already has the Lua interpreter and several Lua modules. Last month I have also built a version of LuaRocks that can work with LfW so you can install new packages and upgrade the ones that you already have. See this message on the LuaRocks mailing list:
To compile C modules from source you are going to need the Windows Platform SDK, and the process is a little involved.
I added mingw support for LuaRocks, but the mingw .lib file for the version of MSVCRT that Lua for Windows uses is a little flaky, and some Lua libraries fail to compile, so using the (free as in beer) MSVC is still your best bet.
I am sure the heavier Windows users are going to chime in with suggestions, too. :-)
--
Fabio Mascarenhas
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Tom
<tom.wieland@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello.
I am interested in building lua and libraries lfs, wsapi, cosmo, orbit
and maybe others later myself on windows. Is there a page describing
what I need and how to do it? Also, can this be done using open source
or otherwise free to use tools?
