Re: Lua + RS-232, portable, just install?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 13/01/2014 14.34, Peter Drahoš wrote:
> Hello Enrico,
> the simplest way on Windows and Mac is to silly download the
> following  binaries and unpack their contents into a single directory
>
> Windows:
> https://github.com/LuaDist/librs232/tree/1.0.3-Windows-x86
> https://github.com/LuaDist/lua/tree/5.1.5-Windows-x86
>
> Mac:
> https://github.com/LuaDist/librs232/tree/1.0.3-Darwin-x86_64
> https://github.com/LuaDist/lua/tree/5.1.5-Darwin-x86_64

Thanks Peter, I superficially browsed LuaDist wiki but didn't realize 
manual binaries assembling was a possibility.

> On linux the recommended way is to simply bootstrap LuaDist using
> the  following one-liner:
>
> echo "$(curl -fksSL https://tinyurl.com/luadist)" | bash
>
> LuaDist itself is lua-5.2.3 based so to get lua-5.1.5 and librs232
> we  need to use it to install into separate directory, e.g. into “_tutorial"
>
> ./LuaDist/bin/luadist _tutorial install librs232
>
> Once installed you can use _tutorial/bin/lua as usual.

Are there problems in porting librs232 to Lua 5.2?
(perhaps I could help?)

> Sorry, no magic “install” button .. yet.

That would do, thanks. Linux users are used to pain and suffering to 
make things work ;-)

P.S. Maybe a short introductory page for 'binary-only users' could make 
LuaDist more approachable for a larger number of users.

--
  Enrico