Re: Makefile vs LUA_PATH inconsistency

[Peter Drahoš <drahosp@...>]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Thijs Schreijer
<thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
>> Behalf Of Javier Guerra Giraldez
>> Sent: dinsdag 20 mei 2014 15:49
>> To: Lua mailing list
>> Subject: Re: Makefile vs LUA_PATH inconsistency
>>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Personally, I'd rather you got rid of that target and included a decent
>> > Visual Studio 2010+ project file.
>>
>>
>> i'd vote the exact opposite (not that voting has any value...).
>>
>> building a release application with VS for more than a single windows
>> version is a nightmare of runtime libs.  in two different teams where
>> i've stepped in when most of the code was already written we spent so
>> much (late) time trying to make it work that in the end it was faster
>> to adapt the code to compile with MinGW.  in at least one of those
>> there was an experienced windows-only C++ developer that still
>> couldn't believe it was so hard to do.
>>
>> i guess most of his previous releases were for XP-only, but when win 7
>> came in, it became impossible to support both with the same package.
>> Well, i guess it was possible somehow, but we had to meet a deadline
>> and the only way we found was to escape VShell
>>
>> hasn't the LfW package passed through a similar torture?
>>
>> --
>> Javier
>
> This is exactly why LuaDist and LuaRocks both have been moving away from Visual Studio (though LR supports it, and maybe LuaDist as well?)

Visual Studio is not directly supported at the moment. This means that
I am not releasing any binaries built using Visual Studio. However
most of the LuaDist packages do compile with Visual Studio even now. I
am considering to add Visual Studio binaries in the next release which
will include compatibility proxy dlls because of popular demand.

>
> Removing MinGW would be a huge step back imo.

MinGW is a much easier target to maintain and it will be the primary
binary release target on Windows in LuaDist.

pd