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| Hi Clint, I have a Windows binary distribution of lua on github here: https:// github.com/winlua/bin. It installs the binaries and the header files as well as a C++ interface called Sol2 (it's an hpp file) and adds environment variables so you can use Lua from the command line. Release 1 1809a is a little old now but would be your best bet (don't use Release 2). The Visual Studio solution for building Lua from source is in https://github.com/WinLua/WinLua-VisualStudio. The github project is quite a mess but you can pilfer the solution/project files from the Visual Studio folder. Feel free to look at Release 2 but it's quite broken and I haven't figured out why. I too am a noob but I've been at it for 5 years! Hope that helps? Russ Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Virgin Mobile network.
--[[ Hi! I'm Clint! https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintreese/ 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 . 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 --]] -- P.S.: My first Lua program shared with the email list! print("Thanks again!") | ||