Re: Compiling LuaFileSystem on Windows 10

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 1/2/2018 2:27 PM, Russell Haley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to get some packages on Windows via luarocks and (as
> warned by luarocks members) I am running into an issue trying to build
> binaries - lfs in this case. My builds are failing in the linking step
> with an error message as such (full output here
> https://pastebin.com/vVFgfyS2):
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\PUC-Lua\5.3.4\x86\lua53.dll : fatal error
> LNK1107: invalid or corrupt file: cannot read at 0x448 (or some
> address).
>
> I have run the build against three different builds of Lua:
> - A 32 bit version compiled with mingw from
> http://joedf.ahkscript.org/LuaBuilds/
> - A 32 bit version I compiled with Visual Studio 2017
> - A 64 bit version I compiled with Visual Studio 2017
>
> I copied the binaries to the same folder in between executions. Note
> the different "cannot read" address in each attempt. Can someone tell
> me what I am doing incorrectly?

(Disclaimer: I'm not a Visual Studio user)

From these, lemme just make a wild guess:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0h6ctxtk.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hcce369f.aspx

Maybe linker does not accept DLLs? *.lib instead? I have always 
assumed linking the DLL directly was an innovation of those who 
brought gcc to Windows.

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