Re: Web host server requirements

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:32:17PM +0000, Chris Wood wrote:
> Rob
> Thanks for the quick response. 
> I don’t intend to compile Lua on the remote server - are you saying ‘an ANSI C compiler’ because that would fulfil the requirements of Lua accessing the standard C libraries (I’m assuming that there is a weak link when the Lua executable was built). 
> Would an alternative be to build Lua without weak links and therefore resolve it for all web hosts (the version I am uploading comes with Scribunto so I haven’t built it)

I would build the C part of the system (ie, Lua) on the server you're
using.  This eliminates all problems of differing C libraries and such
and allows for security updates in the other libraries to be handled by
your web host.

B.