luacom: pbs with lua dll

[Nicolas Decoster <nicolas.decoster@...>]

Hi.

Introduction:

I need to communicate with an app using com object. As I don't want to 
start compiling c++ on windows, I decided to see if scripting language 
can do the job. Since a few months I keep an eye on lua, and I think it 
is the opportunity to try it. In particulary because there is something 
called "luacom".

It's a kind of challenge for me because I am new in all of this (windows 
developpement, COM and lua).

End of introduction.

The question is

I have downloaded luacom to test it. The first demo (ado) worked. But 
when I tried the "server" demo I had several pbs.

 * Using the exe of luacom, I can't use /Register argument to start the 
server (as the demo readme suggest to do). I have looked at source of 
luacom exe and I see that arguments processing is changed: all arguments 
are treat as lua file. So it complains that it doesn't find /Register 
file...
 * So, I decided to use luacom as a library on another lua exe. I 
downloaded several of them (Lua5.0.2-Win32.zip, LuaBinaries-5.0.3.zip, 
luacheia5-win32-5.0.1a5.exe and luacom-1.3b2-iup-bin.tgz) but none of 
them contains lua-5.0.dll nor lualib-5.0.dll needed by luacom (see 
luacom doc section 2.1). In effect, lua complains about it when I type 
require("luacom"). I naively copy Lua.dll and LuaLib.dll (from 
LuaBinaries-5.0.3.zip) to match these names but now lua complains about 
a missing "lua_dofile"... Then I thought I must have missed something 
important about installation or configuration.

Can anyone help me on this?

In particulary, for those who use luacom, which lua binary package do 
you use (i.e. the one that contains lua-5.0.dll)?

Thanks in advance.

Nicolas.



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