Re: The 'ex' library

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 20/08/2010 10:23, Bob Hibberdine wrote:
> I have just started playing around with 'ex' library in Lua for Windows
> and have hit a problem:

I don't see how it is related to Alien library, but then again I don't 
know/don't recall this 'ex' library whose name is hard to search (so I 
haven't tried...). Providing a link could help...

If there is no relation to Alien, I recommend to avoid replying to a 
random message of the mailing list to start a new thread, as those 
reading the ML in threaded mode and marking as read the threads they 
have no interest in might just skip your message (I know I missed some 
interesting discussions this way).

OK, I was intently of bad faith above, and I am curious, so I did a 
search with proper keywords and found (indirectly) 
http://code.google.com/p/lua-ex-api/ which seems to be a good candidate 
(providing a full name of the library can help too...).
I remember this lib, now...

See this message as friendly advices, nothing else. :-)
I wrote that because you have no answer yet, which might be related to 
the above issues. Or that lua-ex people are in holidays... ;-)

Now, trying to make a useful answer, and out of curiosity, I tried to 
compile lua-ex but I failed somewhere as I am not too familiar with gcc 
(too spoiled by Visual Studio, probably...). Not much time to try 
harder. Providing a binary for Windows could have been a good idea from 
the authors (as Windows users are often bad with compilers! ;-))

Looking again at the API, I see they recommend to use
io.pipe and os.spawn, no ex.pipe nor ex.spawn
It might depend on the version, or it might be a cause of your issue, or 
not at all. Just throwing uninformed ideas... :-D

Regards.

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