Re: io.popen: reading both stdout AND stderr

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 15/08/2013 19.48, steve donovan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Lorenzo Donati
> <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it <mailto:lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Moreover since I'm no C guru, I try to stick to small, simple libraries
>     that are easy to build. Sometimes I had to tweak makefiles (or concoct
>     one myself) or modify the sources to suit my needs. With such big beasts
>     I dare not even open the sources with an editor! ;-)
> 
> 
> Well, I'm comfortable with C, but not with arbitrary build systems ;)
> 
> You know, it's easy to wrap up a standalone executable that contains all
> the binary and Lua dependencies - e.g. the Lake exe (built with
> luabuild) has both LuaFileSystem and winapi (which does have setenv).
>  If you pass it a Lua script, it runs it directly, no magic. At about
> 250Kb it's a bargain ;)
>  

Good to know! Thanks!

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