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Am 20.12.2019 um 09:42 schrieb Thijs Schreijer:
On 18 Dec 2019, at 14:42, Gavin Holt <holtgavin@gmail.com <mailto:holtgavin@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I love Lua - thank you all. This is the language I recommend to anyone wanting to learn to code - my copy of PIL has been a great tutorial. There are great development environments available in SciTE or Zerobrane, and a nice friendly community. Lua is well suited to the "non-compiling user", as are many other interpreted languages. The popularity of these scripted languages is in part the ability to use them without learning/maintaining a compiler. However, there is a ceiling to what can be achieved with Lua alone and from that point onwards you need compiled libraries aka "Batteries" (lfs, winapi, rex_pcre, clipboard, afx, lpeg, hunspell, lsqlite, vcl, gslshell). I am very grateful to those who have made compiled libraries for windows available to download, I don't have or want a compiler!Unfortunately Windows makes this very hard. Depending on the versions of the toolchains used to compile the libraries (and hence the dependencies on the underlying MSVCRT type runtime libraries) libs will be compatible or not. In case of incompatibilities, the user get’s no clear messages, just a weird failure. Thijs
As a Windows user i fully agree with Thijs. Sooner or later you will figure out no windows port fully fit your needs and you have to compile your own lua. Maybe you want to have more than one lua version ready. Where to store the c modules? Where to store the Lua modules? and so on... I use TDMgcc on windows as compiler and it works great also with luarocks. If you want to avoid all this and you use Win10, you have the option to use WSL (windows subsystem for Linux) and run your lua scripts in a linux environment. Anyway, sooner or later you need to get familiar with a c compiler :) Ulrich.