Re: Lua Binaries for windows...

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 06/02/2011 21:43, Mike McGonagle wrote:
> I was hoping that there might be some precompiled binaries out there
> for Windows XP that could be used to learn Lua.

See http://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/
A bit "raw", ie. you only have pure Lua, no fancy stuff like graphics or sockets, but you 
can add them later.

> 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).

For the record, I (re)discovered last week the Auto Play Media Studio 8 (what a 
mouthful!), which used to be a paid software but is now free for personal use (even if you 
distribute is as closed source, as long as it is freeware).
http://www.autoplay.org/
It can be programmed in Lua 5.1, which is why I mention it here.

Disclaimer: I haven't tried it yet...
It is big (48MB for the install file), for Windows only, and somebody mentioned it 
generates big standalone exes (around 8MB): they don't seem to manage dependencies. (To be 
confirmed...)

It might be interesting as being a Windows GUI application, more familiar to a Windows 
user than something using a simple editor and the command line... :-)

Otherwise, game frameworks mentioned by Michal (there are others, IIRC) are a good, more 
lightweight alternative. Something like Visual Studio vs. GCC, choose your tools! ;-)

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