> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve donovan [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: woensdag 3 april 2013 7:34
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Luarocks-developers] MinGW and LuaSocket
> 
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Thijs Schreijer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > What worries me though, is looking at the LuaRocks code and finding this
> line;
> >          extras[#extras+1] = "-l" .. (variables.MSVCRT or "msvcr80")
> > The rockspec doesn't have a MSVCRT variable, so the "msvcr80" is
> supplied. Is that ok for MinGW?
> 
> I think it could cause problems - this default is for Lua for Windows
> runtime.  I overrode MSVCRT in my config.lua, but I did not think of
> putting it in the rockspec.  How would I do that, BTW?

Well, I installed LuaRocks using the explicit /MW option to force use of MinGW. 
So msvcr80 is a bad choice anyway in that case.
What would the correct setting in the config file be?

> 
> Might be an idea to put out a maintainance release soon that works fine on
> both x86 and x64 Windows....that nasty batch file for configuration could
> be replaced with a Lua script?  (After all, we _do_ have a cool
> programming language available ;))

Chicken egg; what would you run that script on when you're only installing Lua 
first time...


> 
> steve d.

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