Re: io.popen: reading both stdout AND stderr

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 16/08/2013 1.10, Philipp Janda wrote:
> Am 15.08.2013 18:53 schröbte Lorenzo Donati:
>>
>> I heard of lua-apr, but my knowledge of it is almost nothing. When I
>> last checked it (very very superficially some time ago) IIRC it seemed
>> to be a huge beast (I may be wrong though).
> 
> It *is* huge, since it contains, among other things, a LuaSocket
> alternative, a LuaLanes alternative, a LuaExpat alternative, a LuaSQL
> alternative, an LFS alternative, and probably a kitchen sink somewhere.

:-)

> On my x86_64 Linux box, the stripped shared object of the binding alone
> is almost 200Kb.
> 
> On the plus side it has well-tested, portable implementations of almost
> any function you ever wanted from your OS. To me it seems foolish to try
> to duplicate the OS abstraction of APR ...
> 
>>
>> 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! ;-)
> 
> APR is a *horror* to build on Windows. I still have nightmares sometimes
> ... The code itself is not that bad (but I can only speak for the Unix
> parts).
> 
I downloaded the binaries just to give a shot at it and sadly (to me) it
comes with a no-no dependency for me (msvc100.dll) and what you say
about building it on Windows ...

Thanks, anyway!

-- Lorenzo

> Philipp
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