Re: Lua source does not build for iOS since recent XCode Update

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 9/26/2017 1:05 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > We have been building the lua source code in our iOS project for
> > about a year now.  Last week (around Sept. 20th) XCode was updated
> > and the source code no longer builds.  When compiling loslib.c XCode
> > generates an error saying system() has been deprecated and is no
> > longer supported. (system() is called from os_execute) Is there any
> > plan to correct this issue for iOS? Does anyone have a suggestion as
> > to how best address this?
>
> See http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2017-09/msg00217.html
>
> Note that this is an iOS problem that no longer can claim to support
> standard C or POSIX.

Yep, it would be nice if there is guidance from Apple, but somehow 
I don't think we'll get system() back.

Between iOS, Android and UWP, it's a great excuse to throw 
standards like POSIX out of the window. The future is locked-down 
appliances on the consumer side. The last thing they want is to 
let you use system(). Developers, now please be obedient and jump 
through all the hoops that is asked of you*. Look at all the 
websites switching over to mobile layouts.

To preserve functionality, perhaps some kind of abstraction layer 
would eventually be more practical.

*Already got bitten myself, the latest XCode didn't like some code 
I wrote for Scintilla (warns about the use of comma operators) :-/

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Selangor, Malaysia