Re: mathlib

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-04-06 20:56 GMT+02:00 Michel Martens <soveran@gmail.com>:
> On 6 April 2014 14:19, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One possible solution is to include mathx and other useful libraries as
>> compiled libraries (.so/.dll) with the Lua binary distributions. They can
>> easily be require()d or removed as needed.

> Is it really that painful to load mathx? I use external libraries in
> my projects, and adding them is trivial. Why the need to have their
> functionality as part of the standard library?

Not that painful to load it, but if you are not in the habit of editing
your own Makefiles, it can be quite painful to build it, particularly
if your C compiler happens not to be gcc. In fact, I have not heard
of anyone getting it to work on (surprise, surprise) Visual C++.