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Am 21.05.2014 13:00 schröbte Thijs Schreijer:


The current 'luaconf.h' defaults for LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH, dictate most of this already (unless you change them too).

The defaults currently are (added linebreaks for readability);
LUA_PATH
   !\\lua\\?.lua;
   !\\lua\\?\\init.lua;
   !\\?.lua;
   !\\?\\init.lua;
   .\\?.lua"

LUA_CPATH
   !\\?.dll;
   !\\loadall.dll;
   .\\?.dll
The paths relative to the executable are nice for programs embedding Lua, but I'm not sure they are suitable/enough for the standalone Lua interpreter. E.g. I often install lua52.exe and lua51.exe in the same directory (together with some other command line tools), and there may be cases (external package managers, limited privileges) where you can't or don't want to write to the Lua installation directory ... 



What struck me was that it seems that `.\\?\\init.lua` is missing from LUA_PATH ? or is there a specific reason?


It's there in Lua 5.3work2.



What I don't like is that the CPATH does not allow for a separate folder for the binary modules (even if it just were /lua/, as there is no problem in mixing .dll and .lua files).
Me too, because the base directory will often be in PATH, and if you put binary modules there, those will take part in the normal DLL lookup for all programs. 

Philipp