Re: HOWTO: setup a Windows installation Lua/LuaRocks

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Thijs Schreijer
<thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
> I'm first trying to get everything to work with the Microsoft tools as well. I already considered also trying the TDM package.

TDM is just a well-packed mingw installer without the confusing
options; it's a more convenient way to install the same toolchain.

> They are the Lua for Windows binaries. So still using the MSVCR80.dll.

These should be considered obsolete, since we're moving off that (very
obsolete) platform. It's practically impossible to get that toolchain
any more.  The recommended binary installation now would be the
LuaDist batteries archive.  In any case, LR can detect a LfW
installation if needed.

So if LR comes with binaries, they should be 32-bit mingw-based.
Otherwise they are probably less than useless.

A desirable goal is to populate the LR repo with appropriate binary
rocks - there of course LuaDist has an advantage.

steve d.