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

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 06.10.2013 16:39 schröbte Jayanth Acharya:
> Thanks Philipp... so I guess, I got bitten by either of the 2 reasons,
> because I get this error:
>
> C:\ZeroBraneStudio-master\bin\lua.exe: error loading module 'luars232' from
> file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1/clibs/luars232.dll':
>      system error 14001
>
> > From the error no. (14001) anyway to figure out if it is reason a) or b) ?

Probably a). See e.g. here[1].

  [1]: https://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/issues/detail?id=43

> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > Am 06.10.2013 13:24 schröbte Jayanth Acharya:
> >
> > > 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).