Re: Right way to upgrade one library package of 'Lua for Windows'

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 06.10.2013 13:24 schröbte Jayanth Acharya:
> Hi,

Hi!

> On my Windows machine (running 'Lua for Windows'), the "luars232" library
> is v-1.0.0, where-as the latest is v-1.0.3, which I believe fixes a problem
> I faced. However, this library requires to be built using VC++ compiler,
> which I don't have and would prefer to avoid installing if I can. The
> module/library author has provided the .DLL file for this library as an
> attachment in the past (found in the mailing list archive).
>
> So the question is, can I just go ahead and replace the .DLL file, or is
> there some other step involved (any library version no. specific metadata
> to update, for instance) ?

No, nothing like that, so go ahead. But you have to make sure that the 
new DLL

a) links to the same visual C runtime library DLL
b) links to the same Lua library DLL (although I think LfW contains a 
proxy DLL, so this might not be an issue).

> thanks,
> Jay

Philipp