On 30 September 2013 14:25, Paul K <[email protected]> wrote:
>> http://luarocks.org/repositories/contrib-bin-5.2/. There are also
>> concerns with external library dependencies: how should that work on
>> Windows with regard to binary rocks?
>
> I think the most important dependency is the Lua interpreter; on
> Windows the modules are compiled against a Lua dll. The naming of that
> dll is critical as if it's not named the same way as the Lua dll being
> used by the app, the module won't be loaded (or if the dll is copied,
> it will end up with two Lua interpreters loaded). This can be somewhat
> fixed with a proxy dll, but it probably should not be used in "normal"
> circumstances.
>
> I think it would be best to settle on one naming scheme; for example,
> lua51.dll, lua52.dll and so on (and possibly the same for OSX:
> lua51.dylib).

As of the last release, the LuaRocks zip includes lua51.dll (167936
bytes) and lua51.dll (11264 bytes).

-- Hisham

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