Re: Compiling LuaFileSystem on Windows 10

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

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Which, if I am reading it correctly, is saying that to succesful build a
>> DLL in Visual Studio I would either need to mark up the entire Lua API in
>> the header files with
>>
>> __declspec( dllimport ) void _lua_func_here(...);
>
> Which is already done through the LUA_API prefix, if LUA_BUILD_AS_DLL is
> defined. See luaconf.h.
>
> You might also want to check out vcpkg: https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.
> If nothing else, its Lua port might be instructive.
>
>>  OR Every application (C++ only?) that is built under vs needs to be
>> patched to use
>>
>> extern "C" { #include "MyCHeader.h" }
>
> You are confused here. This is not specific to MSVC and is indeed something
> that needs to be done when C++ code interfaces with C code.
>
> Cheers,
> V.

I should take my own advice and spend the damn money on a good book. Thanks. :)