Re: Distributing Lua packages to Windows machines

[mchalkley@...]

Saturday, March 7, 2015, 9:03:00 AM, you wrote:

> <mchalkley <at> mail.com> writes:

>> 
>> I know this is a sore subject to 
> begin with, and is probaby on the
>> "forbidden topics for Mondays" list 
> (or should be), but I'm afraid I
>> have to do it anyway.
>> 
>> The issue is that a 
> server/application monitoring program 
> I've written
>> in Lua has become very useful (that's 
> the good news), which now
>> necessitates deploying it to a bunch 
> (about 75) of our customer's
>> Windows servers (that's the bad 
> news). The program requires lfs,
>> socket, sigar, and bit. To my 
> knowledge, sigar only works with Lua 
> 5.1.
>> 
>> To have a completely standalone 
> application within a single directory,
>> this is what I've gotten down to:
>> 
>> <MonitorDir>:
>> lua.exe
>> lua51.dll
>> bit.dll
>> lfs.dll
>> liblua.dll
>> sigar.dll
>> libsigar.dll
>> socket.lua
>> mime.lua
>> Monitor.lua
>> 
>> socket - a directory containing:
>> core.dll
>> 
>> mime - a directory containing:
>> core.dll
>> 
>> With the above configuration, I can 
> use Windows Task Manager to run
>> the monitor program and it works just 
> fine.
>> 
>> Ideally, I'd like to run it with 
> LuaJIT, but for now, I'd be thrilled
>> to just get the above into a single 
> windows exe that could be packed
>> with UPX/zipped/etc.
>> 
>> My objective is to decrease the 
> number of files necessary to deploy
>> and also to keep folks from mucking 
> about with the code and screwing
>> up something, so 
> compressing/obfuscating/something along 
> those lines
>> would be necessary.
>> 
>> Is there currently a "best way" to do 
> this?
>>          ,
>> Mark
>> 
>> 

> Hi Mark,

> I'm working on ljc, a tool that ease 
> the deployement of lua programs to 
> standalone executables on Windows and 
> Linux. The first considered-alpha 
> version is available. Take a look at 
> http://www.ljcompiler.com
> Hope it helps.

> Sam

Very interesting, Sam!  Does it work with Lua 5.1?

Thanks,

Mark