Re: Need to find (or build) Lua DLLs for 64-bit, Lua 5.3. Help please!

["Thijs Schreijer" <thijs@...>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2023, at 18:30, Simon Orde wrote:
> Thank you very much!  That’s great.  Anyone else got any suggestions for the remaining dlls? i.e.
>  
> •         MD5 dlls (core.dll and des56.dll)
> •         MIME dll (core.dll)
> •         ODBC dll (core.dll)
> •         Windows Sockets dll (core.dll)
> •         SQLite3 dll (lsqlite3.dll)
>  
> I sort of assume that I’ll need to get LuaRocks working to build these, but I have not had a lot of luck with that.  There’s only one YouTube video on installing LuaRocks underWindows, and the guy who made it says that the only way he managed to get it to work was to install Linux (Ubuntu) under Windows as a subsystem, and install LuaRocks within that.  I haven’t tried that and am not keen to do so, so if anyone can give me some tips on a simpler way of doing it, that would be much appreciated.

Try installing it from the VS command shell.

Word of warning; check the binary code of the dlls with dependency walker, whether they use the same runtime. Mixing runtimes is generally a bad idea and can lead to weird and hard to debug crashes.

Thijs