Re: nmake file for 5.4?

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> On 16 Mar 2018, at 05:16, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lua Team, 
> 
> Microsoft has "graciously" offered the VC Build tools sans Visual Studio for 2017. The install is still around 6.8 gigs, but it means a compiler and nmake are present. Is there any interest in adding an nmake file to the Lua sources? 
> 
> I took a brief stab at it today when I was testing the VS Build tools (like 15 minutes). I will continue picking at it if there is any interest. I get several "whack tons" of warnings I'll have to look into [1] :
> 
> c:\users\russh\lua\lua-5.4.0-work1\src\lua.c(560) : warning C4711: function 'dochunk' selected for automatic inline expansion
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Russ
> 
> [1] Whack Tons: The official unit for measuring compiler warnings you don't know what to do with
> 
> <Makefile.mak>


Have you tried luawinmake [1]? It will build Lua on Windows using native tools, I just added 5.4 support.

Thijs

PS. Tested with gcc toolchains, Windows SDKs, Visual Studio 2008 - 2015. I’d be interested in the VS 2017 result.
 

[1] https://github.com/Tieske/luawinmake/pull/14 (feature branch with 5.4-work1 support)