Re: LuaRocks question

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On 15 March 2018 at 00:38, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:
> On 14 March 2018 at 19:46, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
>> I was wondering if I could use LuaRocks software for managing
>> Ravi-Distro. I need to:
>
> Great choice! :) LuaRocks fits your bill in all regards:
>

Great, thanks!

>> a) Use my github repo as the source for packages
>
> Just set it as the default rocks_server in the config file (the Torch
> project does that) -- Alternatively, you can configure it to point to
> your own account at LuaRocks.org and use only your curated rocks. See
> the LuaRocks wiki docs for more info and feel free to ask!
>

In fact I learnt about using LuaRocks this way by observing Torch. I
will start with github for now.

>> b) Use CMake build system
>
> Also easy: `build.type = "cmake"` is supported.
>
>> On Windows I need to use MSVC by the way.
>
> Also supported, either via cmake or via the builtin build system!
>

Okay - read in the docs that cmake generator only supports Makefiles?
In that case, how does the Windows support work?

Thanks and Regards
Dibyendu