[ANN] New WIKI page BuildingLuaInWindowsForNewbies - beta

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

Hi All!

Following a suggestion from LHF [1] I created a new WIKI page which 
explains how to build a barebone "binary" distro of lua from lua sources 
on Windows for almost absolute newbies.

I think it is rather complete now, but before removing the "Work in 
Progress" header and "release" it I'd like to have some feedback.

I'm especially interested in:

1. proofreading (I'm not an English native speaker, so I may have 
blundered heavily - especially since most work has been done at late 
hours! :-)

2. testing of the step-by-step procedure, especially on Windows machines 
with different setup than mine.

3. other blatant errors

General criticism is also welcome, but I suggest to wait until the page 
is finished and well-tested, so that it can be edited directly in a 
constructive way. Till then I suggest to post the feedback to this 
thread (I have a template that generates the actual WIKI text, so for me 
is currently far easier to integrate suggestion in the template and then 
regenerate the page after a number of suggestion have been processed).

Cheers!

-- Lorenzo

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2013-07/msg00780.html

P.S.: is there a smarter way to get the link to the online archived 
version of a lua-l message? To link to LHF's post I had to search for 
the subject online and then manually browse the. Isn't there some 
"magic" way to extract that information from my mail client directly?

thanks!

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