RE: HOWTO: setup a Windows installation Lua/LuaRocks

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of steve donovan
> Sent: zondag 12 januari 2014 7:57
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> Subject: Re: HOWTO: setup a Windows installation Lua/LuaRocks
> 
> 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.

This has been discussed. Iirc Hisham decided to stick with these binaries until the integration with LuaDist was improved (I think regarding rockspec formats etc.)

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