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- Subject: Re: [Windows] How to compile LuaRocks with Lua 5.3.5?
- From: Chris Smith <space.dandy@...>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:05:02 +0000
> On 27 Mar 2020, at 12:54, Nereus <codecomplete@free.fr> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, is it possible to ease deployment of Lua apps to
> Windows/Mac users (since I guess Linux hosts often have a C compiler) by
> just zipping…
> - The Lua interpreter (EXE + DLL)
> - Modules in plain Lua, which the interpreter will compile on the fly
> - DLLs of C-based Lua modules
> ?
>
> Thus, the user wouldn't have to install LuaRocks and a C compiler.
Yes. ZeroBrane Studio uses this approach and I have copied that for my Shuttle project, which is essentially just a launcher for Lua apps that also allows you to package up the application source files into a binary blob. The bootstrapping mechanism adds a package loader to search the blob when require(), loadfile(), etc are called.
Regards,
Chris
—
Chris Smith <space.dandy@icloud.com>
