On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Jerome Vuarand <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a bit off-topic, but wouldn't that be more friendly to the user > to let him choose the toolchain, and thus provide support for several > ones ? The dependency on VC8 is something that has prevented me from > using LuaRocks on Windows. It's hard or impossible to find a free > version of it, AFAIK Microsoft only provide a single Express edition > of VC at any given time (and right now it's vc10). > > One could imagine have LuaRocks be able to be configured to use one of > several "toolchain-specific platforms" (e.g. x86-vc8, x86-vc9, > x86-vc10, mingw, x64-vc9, x64-vc10, mingw64) or some > "toolchain-agnostic platforms" (e.g. x86-win32, x64-win32) for DLLs > built without dependencies on a particular toolchain.
That's an interesting idea, indeed. I'm not in the best position to make this happen, since I don't use Windows, but if there's user demand for something like this, additions in this direction would be certainly welcome. -- Hisham _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
