Re: [Xavante] Installing without LuaRocks?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Gilles Ganault <gilles.ganault@free.fr> wrote:
> I suspect the basic Lua distribution doesn't include enough libraries
> to run Xavante.

This is true, but it is easy to work out the dependencies of a Lua
Rocks package.  For instance, looking at xavante-2.0.1-1.rockspec
there is this section:

dependencies = {
        'copas >= 1.1.3',
        'luasocket >= 2.0.2',
        'luafilesystem >= 1.4.1'
}

and for COPAS:

dependencies = {
   "lua >= 5.1",
   "luasocket >= 2.0"
}

COPAS is pure Lua, so you just need to find the appropriate binary
extensions LuaSocket & LuaFileSystem (which the LuaBinaries project do
provide as well)

The irritating thing about the Lua binaries in LfW is that they
require that damn Microsoft runtime.  LuaBinaries does not AFAIK
provide a mingw build of Lua 5.1.4 and it would be cool if these were
available precisely because they are easier to install.

steve d.