Re: Building Lua on Windows

[Ross Bencina <rossb-lists@...>]

On 2/04/2013 11:21 AM, Mason Mackaman wrote:
> All of you guys are talking about things like LuaRocks and LuaDist. What
> about the the Lua files that is offered on their official website. I
> posted this mostly to learn how to use Lua with those. Does anybody do
> that?

Hi Mason,

Following links from the Lua website there are Lua 5.2.1 binaries:

-> http://www.lua.org/download.html (Binaries)
-> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaBinaries
-> http://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/
-> http://sourceforge.net/projects/luabinaries/files/5.2.1/
-> http://sourceforge.net/projects/luabinaries/files/5.2.1/Executables/

That will give you a command line executable. If you just want to run 
scripts or try things at the command prompt it's enough.

For learning tasks I generally use ZeroBrane with Lua 5.1, but it can be 
configured to use the 5.2 interpreter:

http://studio.zerobrane.com/doc-lua52-debugging.html

Ross.