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I'm truly a Lua newbie. I'm such a newbie that I don't know if asking newbie questions on this email stream is wasting everyone's precious time. If so, feel free to close this message immediately!
I love the language and think Dr. Roberto Ierusalimschy is a genius, though, because I think that minimalism is the key to reliability in human designs. Plus I think designing a teaching system for a programming language around some aspects of the moon is way cool, and even wise
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Specifically, right now, I'm trying to compile the Lua 5.3 code from source, on Windows 10, using Visual Studio 2019.
Is that my first mistake? Yeah, I attempt bad humor. I seem to be over my head with these feature-bloated IDE's designed to build and support feature-bloated programs. Perhaps I should switch to Linux or Minix for development.
I copied and pasted the Lua 5.3 source from the website into source files manually. Scripting wizard I ain't. I tried to combine the code with code from:
Specifically:
#include <stdio.h>
#include "lua.h"
#include "lualib.h"
#include "lauxlib.h"
/* the Lua interpreter */
lua_State* L;
int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
/* initialize Lua */
L = lua_open();
/* load various Lua libraries */
lua_baselibopen(L);
luaopen_table(L);
luaopen_io(L);
luaopen_string(L);
luaopen_math(L);
/* cleanup Lua */
lua_close(L);
return 0;
}
I got some kind of error about C++ not allowing default-int, I believe.
So, I manually saved the .c files with .cpp files.
Less errors, but I couldn't even seem to find the executable to run it! Comedic!
OK. I tried a new approach:
1. Open new project from existing code
2. Visual C++
3. ProjectFileLocation: C:\Users\cbruc\Desktop\CandLua\10-8-2019
4. Project Name: MoonShine53
5. Add files to the project from these folders: C:\Users\cbruc\Desktop\CandLua\10-8-2019 C:\Users\cbruc\Desktop\Lua53Source (Files with .c extension, not .cpp, yet)
6. Show all files in Solution Explorer
7. Finish
Well, I thought I did this before and got a long list of similar error messages, but now I'm getting the windows-processing-twirly-thing for over 16 minutes.
Thanks in advance for your time.
Thanks,
Clint Reese
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print("Thanks again!")
