Re: Help needed Building static binaries on Windows

[Tim McCracken <Tim.McCracken@...>]

You don’t need anything except the Lua source files. I use the free version of Visual Studio To build a static Lua library and just link it to my main program. I would be happy to send you the project files but I am away from my computer until Sunday evening. Let me know if you don’t get it solved by then.

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On Nov 22, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Stefan Schroeder <ondekoza@gmail.com> wrote:

I have created a useful utility using Lua and the IUP GUI library that I want to share with my co-workers.

But I cannot expect them to install the Lua interpreter just for this tool. That's why I was looking for ways to build a

fat single executable.

I have tried everything: 

I tried 

luapak from https://github.com/jirutka/luapak

luastatic from https://github.com/ers35/luastatic

using 

the lua-distros from 

Luarocks: https://luarocks.org/

Luadist: http://luadist.org/

Luapower: https://luapower.com/

As a last resort I am trying srlua from

http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#srlua 

But the Makefile is for Linux and Darwin only, I have tried to compile with Cygwin-Mingw,Gnuwin32-Mingw, TDM-GCC and had no success, although it was reported here:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-05/msg00379.html

that it would work. 

I am looking for a step-by-step guide how to compile a Lua script into a Single executable binary in Windows 10.

Can please somebody walk me through it? I feel really stupid although I am a developer w/ 20 years experience (but new to Lua, though).

Regards

Stefan

Germany