Re: Feature Request: LuaWinMake in Next Release?

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> On 30 May 2018, at 11:40, Gisle Vanem <gvanem@yahoo.no> wrote:
> 
> Russell Haley wrote:
> 
>> I took a few minutes today at work with a fresh Windows 10 VM to test LuaWinMake with the Visual Studio C++ Build Tools and can report success. All I had to do was open the "Visual Studio Developer Console", move the winmake.bat file into my Lua directory and type winmake.bat.
>> https://github.com/Tieske/luawinmake
> 
> Nice, I tried it. But it does not with a TCC/4NT-shell
> (it doesn't like the awful cmd construct in LFCHAR).

Well, that is a commercial command-shell replacement… if it doesn’t work maybe raise an issue with them regarding compatibility?
And yes it is one of the ugliest hack I’ve ever done, and that says a lot [1]. Unfortunately Windows batch files are still the most “compatible” way of doing stuff like this without extra dependencies. But it does require occasional hacks due to its limitations.

> 
> That aside, how can it build a 32-bit LUA with a dual-mode
> MinGW (tdm-gcc or MinGW64-w64). With those, when winmake.bat does
> a 'gcc', it implies 64-bit ('gcc -m64'). How can I specify
> 'gcc -m32'?
> 
> There should perhaps be a way to 'set EXTRAFLAG=-m32' from the
> cmd-line.

The aim of luawinmake is to just build Lua. It auto-detects the Lua version from the source code. It works for Lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 (5.4 is available as a separate branch). And it works with all common compilers available for Windows (also auto-detected).

So a PR would be most welcome :)

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> --gv
> 


[1] unfortunately about more of my code than just luawinmake :)