Re: A guide to building Lua modules .. and what about standalone programs?

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 14.04.2014 19:36 schröbte Christian Thaeter:
> What makes me puzzled for some time is how to package standalone
> programs (which may have some associated modules, some
> configuration files and possibly some other resources).
>
> Its prolly doable with Rocks, but I haven't seen anyone using rocks for
> this purpose. Are there any other installation/deployment schemes
> common for lua programs?

For deploying Lua programs (on Windows) you usually have to include the 
host program (or the Lua interpreter). If you don't want a full-blown 
installer, I believe srlua[1] is popular (you may want to combine it 
with some form of amalgamation, but I think you can `require` external 
modules relative to the executable path on Windows), and I have 
successfully used eee[2] on Windows XP before (not long ago I got it to 
compile on a recent fpc on Win 7 with minor modifications, but I haven't 
actually tested it yet -- it's on my todo list).

> 	greetings
> 		Christian

Philipp

  [1]: https://github.com/stevedonovan/luabuild/tree/master/srlua
  [2]: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/eee/