Re: [ANN] Windows MSI Installer for PUC-Lua - Proof Of Concept

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

Okay, I had some progress. I think. I've run out of time but I have
created two VS projects. One for  a dll and one for the lua.exe. The
DLL compiles but I am getting complaints from the exe project:

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol lua_close referenced in
function main PUC-Lua N:\Code\lua-5.3.4\Visual Studio\PUC-Lua\lua.obj
1
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol lua_gettop referenced in
function docall PUC-Lua N:\Code\lua-5.3.4\Visual
Studio\PUC-Lua\lua.obj 1

and so forth. I don't have time to do a proper clean up so I stuffed a
zip file with everything here:

https://github.com/RussellHaley/PUC-Lua-Installer/blob/master/lua-5.3.4.zip

Someone might be able to compile it in VS 2015 if you change the target SDK?

Either way, thanks for all the great help!

Oh, and Mr. Laurie is right. This would have all worked if I just
added the libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll file to the installer with joedfs builds.
lolz. Thankfully I've saved that code...

zzzz...
Russ


On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 18, 2017 7:12 PM, "Russell Haley" <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Ką Mykolas <kamicc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> HOW MUCH?! o_0 and it's still 32bit only?
>>
>> No, it's not 32-bit-only. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit just fine
>> (and possibly other targets as well).
>>
>> It's just that some projects (not from Microsoft) still only build in
>> 32-bit because they haven't been updated for the 64-bit Windows APIs
>> yet or have other specific limitations that haven't been fixed yet.
>>
>> /s/ Adam
>
> The full install actually failed an hour after I started the download.
> I had to pair it back to the basics. I removed the Unity gaming
> framework, Xamarian mobel development and all their azure stuff and
> that brought it down to a "modest" 13 GB. I couldn't tell if it was
> the Unity or the Xamarian stuff that was making the VS install fail.
>
> The good news is it only takes 13Gb of disk space and I now have an
> environment to build Lua! (yes, more sarcasm. I can't help myself
> today). I used the "create project from existing code" wizard and I
> was able to build Lua (single exe). I would like to separate out the
> interpreter, compiler and library into two exe's and a dll. I'll have
> to reverse engineer a Makefile to find out how the files are split
> unless someone can point me to an easier resource? Makefile scripts
> are not one of my strong points. Hence the need for 13 GB of tools! :D
>
> Russ
>
>
> Divide the *.c files into the following groups:
> 1. lua.c
> 2. luac.c
> 3. l*lib.c
> 4. everything else
>
> Then build:
> lua.dll: 3+4
> lua.exe: 1, linked to lua.dll
> luac.exe: 2+4 (don't link to the DLL since it requires internal symbols)
>
> Note that I'm typing this on my phone from memory, so I might have a detail
> or two wrong.