Hi - Is this the right place to ask a LuaRocks question? I’ve been trying to build various lua dlls using LuaRocks – for Lua5.3 and the VC runtime for Visual Studio 2017 (VCRUNTIME140.DLL). I downloaded luawinmulti-master.zip and tried to follow the instructions.
I had one folder for the luawinmulti-master stuff and another target folder to build into. I opened the Visual Studio 2017 Tools Command Prompt (where hopefully all the paths etc are set up as needed) and in the luawinmulti-master folder ran
MAKE --53 install “D:\My\Lua”
to build into the target folder. I set up environment variables as instructed (I think – not sure what the ‘rocktree’ references are about). Still in the same command shell I ran
Not sure what environment variables you’re referring to. Only thing I can think of is the output of the LuaRocks installer. But you can ignore this, and instead use the supplied batch file `setlua.bat`, see
https://github.com/Tieske/luawinmulti#usage(LuaWinMulti install LuaRocks and does the hard work for you, so the intermediate output by LuaRocks can be ignored)
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install luafilesystem (to build lfs.dll)
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install luacom (to build lua.com.dll)
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install md5 (to build des56.dll and md5\core.dll)
lfs.dll, des56.dll, and md5\core.dll all appear OK as far as I can see. If I look at them in Dependencies (the app), they link to Lua53.dll and VCRUNTIME140.DLL. But something is not right when I build luacom.dll. For some reason, it shows in Dependencies
linked to Lua5.1.dll and MSVCR80.dll.
I have tried all the variations I can think of but somehow luacom.dll always ends up linked to 5.1 and MSVCR80.dll. Has anyone got any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong? I should add that I have never used LuaRocks before.
Essentially this means LuaRocks has less control over how it is build, and in this case it seems to work against you.
The good news, is that in the repo above, there also is a `
Makefile53.win` so maybe you could use that? Just clone the repo, rename that file to `
Makefile.win` and
do `luarocks make` from the repo
(Make sure to do it from the VS command shell, and first call `setlua.bat 53`)
Have no Windows system myself…
Thijs
