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March 24, 2017 10:10 PM, "Sean Conner" <sean@conman.org> wrote:

> The consensus there seems to be: it's missing batteries and I can't get
> started with it in less than 5 seconds on Windows.

I answered on Reddit, but I will say it again here: the only way
I found to have a decent experience using Lua on Windows is through
https://github.com/Tieske/luawinmulti. It only depends on a C
compiler (MinGW or MSVC) and gives you a working, self-contained
Lua with a working LuaRocks. This should be what we point Windows
users to.

-- 
Pierre Chapuis