RE: Problem with luarocks on Windows

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Eitan Rosa
> Sent: maandag 9 maart 2015 2:03
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Problem with luarocks on Windows
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not currently working as a programmer, but back in the day I did get a
> degree in computer science. So it is safe to say that I'm more than a
> "little rusty." Even though I make my living doing something else and
> completely unrelated, now I like to delve into it as a hobby or maybe a bit
> more later. I'm a big fan of lua and had plenty of fun with it under Linux
> (Ubuntu). At this point it's just not an option to keep a Linux machine
> around and I tried to set up the whole thing on Windows 8.1. All nice and
> good until I tried to to install lua modules needing compilation (eg. LPeg).
> I'm using a Windows 8.1 64-bit system with Visual Studio 12.0. I get the
> following error:
> 
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'MSVCRT.lib'
> 
> Searches online point to fixes to this on older versions of Visual Studio
> that I can't even try to access on this version. Any help would be much
> appreciated.
> 
> Eitan Rosa

First thing that catches my attention is you mentioning VS2012, with the error message mentioning MSVCRT.lib. Generally the MinGW based compiler (GCC) uses the MSVCRT library, whereas VS uses a MSVCR110 for example.

Some questions
- did you install Lua as binaries, downloaded, or did you compile Lua yourself using the VS version on your system?
- What does your luarocks 'config.lua' file have on the compiler to use?