Re: Getting Started with Lua

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 25/07/2013 15.23, Peter Drahoš wrote:

Thank you for all the pointers.

[snip]

> TDM GCC is a solid suggestion, the current LuaDist
> binaries[1] are built with it and so far there have been no
> issues with the distribution that are worth mentioning.
> However I would now recommend to switch over to the
> MinGW-builds[2] especially if you are aiming for 64bit
> releases with SEH exception handling[3] which is also
> suitable for LuaJIT. That is why upcoming LuaDist binaries
> will use MinGW-builds 4.8.1.


I forgot to mention that I used only the 32bit version, I never used TDM 
GCC 64bit, has it some issues?
I used TDM GCC 4.7.1 (32bit) to build LuaJIT and everything was ok.
I must admit that it was only to play a little with LuaJIT ffi, so I 
cannot say if the generated LuaJIT executable has issues.

> > It would help people which don't like/want or can't depend on MSVC tools, like OSS tools and/or are not too C-savy.
> The installation and use of the MinGW tools cannot be easier,
> unpack and add destination to PATH, there are also installers
> available. Another problem you will face on Windows is the
> lack of any decent make replacements if you do not want to
> use Msys(which I will not go into), for that purpose CMake[3]
> works well especially if the software aims to be portable to
> other platforms. This works well with Code::Blocks IDE or
> QtCreator

The make in coreutils coming with TDM GCC 32bit seems ok.

> You can also follow the manual install instructions for LuaDist to get a basic environment going[7]. Alternatively you can just use the LuaDist binaries which should be enough to get you started with Lua on Windows.
>
> pd
>
> [1] http://www.luadist.org
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/
> [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/host-windows/releases/4.8.1/64-bit/threads-posix/seh/
> [4] http://cmake.org
> [5] http://www.codeblocks.org/
> [6] https://qt-project.org/wiki/Category:Tools::QtCreator (QT SDK not required)
> [7] https://github.com/LuaDist/Repository/wiki/LuaDist%3A-Installation

-- Lorenzo

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