Re: Building wxLua (wx.dll) with Lua 5.1 and 5.3, both for x32 and 64b machine

[Paul K <paul@...>]

Hi Lukas,

> a) Do I understand or did I deduce the whole process correctly?

Yes, with a couple of caveats: (1) you need to compile wxWidgets from
source, as you won't be able to use their binaries, and (2) you need
to get the wxlua source from https://github.com/pkulchenko/wxlua/tags
(or get the latest source from the master branch)

> b) Would it be possible to fix the ambiguities between latest wxLua version stated on [2a] and [3]?

Yes, if I can figure out how to update [3]. I'll update the text in
[2b] to point to [2a], as this is the currently supported source.

> c) As you don't plan to add wxLua binaries onto your github, would it be possible to place .dsp/.vcproj (built by CMake on your side) onto your github, for MSVC users to avoid individual installing and investigating CMake as .vcproj "mid-provider" for wxLua MSVC project?

I'm not sure how to do this, as I don't use MSVC; if you want to
contribute a patch, please open a ticket or CR, but you would still
need cmake to run the rest of the steps.

There are 32bit wxlua binaries that ship for all versions of Lua with
ZeroBrane Studio
(https://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio/tree/master/bin; see
clibs* folders; although these are built with Mingw) and there is a
build script in build/ folder that will get the sources and does all
the necessary steps to build wxlua (you'd need to have `make` and
`bash` available and remove `-G "MSYS Makefiles"` from build-win32.sh
to use MSVC).

Paul.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 6:33 AM Luk Pro <Lua.Mailing.List@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Paul,
>
> I'd need to build wxLua in both x32 and 64b version, and for testing purposes also with Lua 5.1 and 5.3, all Win7/WinX, and all using MS Visual Studio (e.g. with MSVC 2008 - which I have installed on my comp).
>
> (IOW, the goal is to be able to use "require 'wx'" in my Lua scripts, witch option to use wx.dll targeted to Lua 5.1 or 5.3, x32 or 64b build, under Windows.)
>
> You state [0] that you don't plan to put any binaries onto web; so to make wxLua work (and to compile + link wx.dll successfuly) do I have to:
>
> 1. download wxWidgets binaries [1] - either straightly or download wxWidgets source and compile them into wxWidget DLLs;
>
> 2. get wxLua source [2b]
>         - note that [2b] refers to [3], where there is a highlighted statement "Latest wxLua version is: » 2.8.12.3 «", which beats with that on [2a] (wxLua ver. 3+);
>
> 3. download and install/setup CMake [4];
>
> 4. use CMake to create MSVC project files for wxLua, i.e. .dsp/.dsw or .vcproj/.sln project/solution files;
>
> 5. use MSVC combined with .dsp/.vcproj to build wxLua DLLs.
>
> My humble questions:
>
> a) Do I understand or did I deduce the whole process correctly?
>
> b) Would it be possible to fix the ambiguities between latest wxLua version stated on [2a] and [3]?
>
> c) As you don't plan to add wxLua binaries onto your github, would it be possible to place .dsp/.vcproj (built by CMake on your side) onto your github, for MSVC users to avoid individual installing and investigating CMake as .vcproj "mid-provider" for wxLua MSVC project?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lukas
>
> [0] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-09/msg00055.html
> [1] e.g. https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.4/wxMSW-3.1.4_vc14x_ReleaseDLL.7z
> [2a] https://github.com/pkulchenko/wxlua
> [2b] https://github.com/pkulchenko/wxlua/blob/master/wxLua/docs/install.md#41---getting-the-wxlua-source-code
> [3] http://wxlua.sourceforge.net/download.php
> [4] https://cmake.org/download/
>
>
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 at 6:53 AM
> From: "Paul K" <paul@zerobrane.com>
> To: "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
> Subject: [ANN] wxlua release 3.1.0.0
> Hi All,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of v3.1.0.0 of wxlua [1]. wxlua is
> a Lua binding for the cross-platform wxWidgets GUI toolkit.
>
> This release adds support for Lua 5.4 (in addition to Lua 5.1+ and
> LuaJIT support), implements several new classes (wxDataViewCtrl,
> wxTranslations), includes a large number of improvements/fixes, and
> has been tested on the most recent version of wxwidgets (3.1.4) and
> its current master branch.
>
> The complete list of the changes in this version (and other 8 releases
> since my last announcement more than a year ago) is available in the
> repository [2].
>
> I don't have any precompiled binaries (and don't plan to provide
> them), but am exploring adding github actions to compile them on
> Windows/macOS/Linux, so if anyone has experience with those and can
> contribute working scripts, open a PR or an issue to collaborate. I
> also don't have Lua 5.3 and Lua 5.4 code included in the wxlua source
> tree, but will consider including it if it's needed to simplify the
> binary generation.
>
> Let me know if you run into any issues with it or have any other
> feedback. Thank you for your support and contributions to the project.
>
> Paul.
>
> [1] https://github.com/pkulchenko/wxlua
> [2] https://github.com/pkulchenko/wxlua/blob/master/wxLua/docs/changelog.md[https://github.com/pkulchenko/wxlua/blob/master/wxLua/docs/changelog.md]