Re: Installation of Lua application

[Peter Odding <peter@...>]

> Hello,
> Let I have an application that is written in Lua. It may consist of a
> few files.
> Are there a standsrd way to install this application on user's computer?
> I mean that installtor shall install application itself and corresponded
> runtime (lua and required libraries)
> Thanks
> Alex

Assuming you are targeting Microsoft Windows [1], I would say go with 
NSIS [2]. It's very easy to get started and you can script it to do all 
sorts of fancy stuff. I don't think you can script it in Lua, but most 
NSIS installers should take only 25-50 lines of NSIS script code (I've 
never needed more than ~50).

 - Peter

[1] Because most other popular operating systems have a package 
management system which makes the choice of "installer" obvious.

[2] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/