Re: Lua for Windows needs help

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:52:36 -0500, RJP Computing <rjpcomputing@gmail.com>  
wrote:

>   * Can this be made to be cross-platform? (I hope so, that is a personal
> goal)
>
> Thoughts?

This is the way I've always thought of it: break LfW into multiple parts:

* The Lua debugger integration for SciTE
* The set of combined libraries (LuaSocket, LFS, IUP, CD, IM, Penlight etc)
* The Windows installer for Lua, LuaRocks, and SciTE (and said integration)

For the library collection, make a "meta-package" rockspec that installs  
all these packages (skipping them if not available for the current  
platform, eg. LuaCOM on anything but Windows).

That way, you make it so the Windows installer installs Lua, Rocks, and  
the customized SciTE, then runs luarocks install http://path/to/lfw/rock.

On other operating systems you can use the native package installer for  
Lua and LuaRocks, install the SciTE Lua debugging configuration however  
(PPA, RPM, AUR, tarball...), and then run the same luarocks install as on  
Windows.

As far as I can tell, the main problem with this currently is that some of  
the libraries in LfW don't have rocks (such as IUP... hint ;))