Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...> writes: > 1) it assumes that Windows has a different way to detect the platform than other platforms. So the windows > build systems must be told explicitly what version of windows it is being build on/for. Apparently on *nix > this is handled by the buildsystem. Kind a makes sense as Windows usually does binary distribution, where > *nix uses mostly source distribution. > > 2) it assumes that the standard way of telling the build system what to build for is using `WINVER` and > `_WIN32_WINNT`. Are these standard? Are there any others? >
This is link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383745%28v=vs.85%29.aspx In short. > Certain functions that depend on a particular version of Windows are declared using conditional code. ... >The Windows header files use macros to indicate which versions of Windows support many programming elements. Therefore, you must define these macros to use new functionality introduced in each major operating system release. (Individual header files may use different macros; therefore, if compilation problems occur, check the header file that contains the definition for conditional definitions.) I think by default MS`s compiler use compilation platform version. But MinGW use 0x500(Win2k)? > > 3) it assumes that "target platform == compilation platform" (no cross compilation). This is safe I guess > for LR on Windows. Yes. this is my point. Several years ago i work on Win2k and build code for Win2k3 server. There was some incomparability and i need different binaries for Win2k and WinXP/Win2k3. May be luarocks could provide way to detect win version in rockspec. But it make rockspecs more difficult. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
