Re: Lua Binaries for windows...

[Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>]

There is a Lua for Windows project.

http://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/

This might be at least a good starting point

On 6 February 2011 20:43, Mike McGonagle <mjmogo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was hoping that there might be some precompiled binaries out there
> for Windows XP that could be used to learn Lua. I have a 13 year old
> kid who I would like to teach Lua. I looked at the Lua for Windows
> project, but it appears to be for Windows 2000, and I am not quite
> sure what compatibility issues there are with that and XP (I am a
> Linux/Mac OS X programmer).
>
> I don't want to go through the whole thing of having to install a C
> compiler just to allow him to learn Lua, plus I would like to be able
> to later download other modules to extend Lua, and possibly teach him
> how to do those things for himself. The C compiler would be way above
> his level at this point. (This is his first programming language).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>