Re: Update the Lua engine in Lua-scripted games with LuaJIT

[Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin@...>]

Mind sharing the luajit 1 dll? I tried all these combinations as well, with same results except I didn't try the plain one.

> On 2010-10-24 11:20 AM, "Johnson Lin" <arch.jslin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, I tried to build LuaJIT 1.1.6 with msvc9 and put the
>
> generated dll into
> Civilization 5, and renamed it to substitute the original dll came
> with Civ5. It seems to be
> working nicely.
>
> I've also tested it using lua51.dll built with both gcc4.5 and msvc9
> from the official source,
> and both using default build settings. The msvc9 one worked but not gcc4.5 one.
> So I'm guessing that Civ5 uses vanilla Lua 5.1.x, although the binary
> produced by gcc4.5
> somehow just doesn't load.
>
> And then I gave LuaJIT2-beta5 a shot, all builds failed the Civ5
> loading process.
>
> So I'd like to ask some newbie questions:
> 1. If a program was originally embedded with vanilla Lua 5.1.x, where
> LuaJIT 1.1.6 actually
> worked substituting the original Lua dll, in theory LuaJIT2 should've
> worked as well, right?
>
> 2. vanilla Lua is implemented in ANSI C, so what might be preventing
> builds from gcc to work,
> when builds from msvc worked? I've tried all builds of Lua/LuaJIT
> mentioned above with
> some luarocks, which have prebuilt binaries linked against lua5.1.dll
> (such as luasocket),
> all of them worked without problems.
>
> Hope someone on the mailing list can help me a little bit, thanks in
> advance. : )