I finally got my five-year-old code base for 'Grunt', an advanced Windows
runtime using Lua for shell scripting, ready for a proper public launch: https://github.com/JohnHind/Grunt
Oh, that seems very, very interesting!
Do I understand correctly, that MS ATL sources cannot be distributed with this standalone, so VS Express users probably have to install Windows Driver Kit [1] if they'd want to build?
Also, did you include, or would you consider including, the luaffi [2] project inside? I imagine that could help to add support for more Windows APIs as needed on-the-fly, without need for rebuilding the whole stack?
