Re: Question about shared libraries with MinGW

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 6/22/2014 4:03 PM, David Demelier wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'm trying to build Lua 5.2.3 as a full shared library (no static at
> all). I used MinGW-w64 and I typed make mingw to build Lua.
>
> The generated files includes a lua.exe built dynamically (with
> lua.dll). But there also liblua.a which *seems* to be static. Because
> when I try to create a simple module in C and link to this liblua.a,
> calling lua.exe myfile.lua (which call require "themodule") ends with
> "Multiple Lua VMs detected".
>
> Usually, MinGW projects installs two different kind of libraries,
> foo.a (static) and foo.dll.a (shared, for import).
>
> How can I do the same with Lua ?

Just link it with the DLL, that's the easiest route. The MinGW 
linker is very flexible. I wouldn't use the static library unless 
the thingy is totally self-contained.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia