Re: Compiling LuaFileSystem on Windows 10

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

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 2:01 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:47 AM, KHMan <keinhong@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You should try it on a compiler for which something like this have worked
>> for you in the past.
>
> Which BTW, makes it very hard for LuaRocks to deliver binary rocks on Windows.
>
> There are so many variants - generally the GNU toolchain is better
> because it doesn't change its runtime every year.
>
> It would take an heroic effort to do this - though I think LuaDist is
> onto something good - Peter Drahos builds EVERYTHING (including C
> dependencies) using CMake.
>
> His 'batteries' mini-distribution is a worthy successor for Lua for Windows.
>
This is great, thanks Steve. LuaDist is similar to what I was thinking
but taken to the next step. The PDF from the 2013 workshop is very
good. https://www.lua.org/wshop13/Drahos.pdf

Russ