Re: Breakthrough dream

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 27-Mar-17 10:46, Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> > 2) easy installation on major operating systems (with shared libraries)
>
> Lua is already pretty easy to install everywhere except on
> Windows. Because I/O is not standard today, a lot of modules
> have C parts so I don't think a Lua development setup without
> a C compiler is realistic. There are plenty of solutions that
> are not so complicated (MinGW + luawinmulti, the Linux
> subsystem, msys2...) but maybe we need something that installs
> a local mingw + Lua + LuaRocks with a graphical installer to
> satisfy some category of users.

Or simply precompiled DLLs, assuming this is still possible on current 
Windows systems.

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  Enrico