Re: Installing Lua 5.1.1 on mingw error

["Austin Xu Wang" <xu4wang@...>]

Hi Chong,

Thanks for the workaround...but it doesn't work for my mingw..  :(

Austin
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axw@axw-01 /d/tmp/lua-5.1.1
$ ls
COPYRIGHT  HISTORY  INSTALL  Makefile  README  doc  etc  src  test

axw@axw-01 /d/tmp/lua-5.1.1
$ cd src

axw@axw-01 /d/tmp/lua-5.1.1/src
$ make mingw
C:/msys/1.0/mingw/bin/make.exe "LUA_A=lua51.dll" "LUA_T=lua.exe" \
"AR=gcc -shared -o" "RANLIB=strip --strip-unneeded" \
"MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_BUILD_AS_DLL" "MYLIBS=" "MYLDFLAGS=-s" lua.exe
C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe: invalid option -- a
C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe: unrecognized option `--strip-unneeded '


On 12/12/06, chong tsong <tsongchong@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> here is my solution:
>
> * build
> $ cd $LUA_DIR/src
> $ make mingw
> $ make luac
>
>
> * install (replace /mingw with your installation directory)
> $ cp lua.h luaconf.h lualib.h lauxlib.h /mingw/include/
> $ cp liblua.a /mingw/lib/
> $ cp lua.exe luac.exe lua51.dll $WINDIR/system32
>
>
> hope it's helpful to you :-)
>
> Tsong Chong
>
>
> 2006/12/12, Austin Xu Wang <xu4wang@gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was trying to build lua on mingw/mysys but failed, make complained
> > for  "invalid option --a" .
> >
> > Do I need to change something in lua package?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Austin
> >
> > ---------Following is some information about the errors and mingw I
> > installed------------------------
> >
> > $ make mingw
> > cd src && C:/msys/1.0/mingw/bin/make.exe mingw
> > C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe[1]: Entering directory `d:/tmp/lua-5.1.1/src'
> > C:/msys/1.0/mingw/bin/make.exe "LUA_A=lua51.dll" "LUA_T=lua.exe" \
> > "AR=gcc -shared -o" "RANLIB=strip --strip-unneeded" \
> > "MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_BUILD_AS_DLL" "MYLIBS=" "MYLDFLAGS=-s" lua.exe
> > C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe: invalid option -- a
> > C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe: unrecognized option `--strip-unneeded '
> > Usage: C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\make.exe [options] [target] ...
> > Options:
> >   -b, -m                      Ignored for compatibility.
> >   -B, --always-make           Unconditionally make all targets.
> >
> >
> > The make version is:
> >
> > $ make --version
> > GNU Make 3.80
> > Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> > There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> > PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> >
> > The Mingw packages I installed are:
> >
> > AXW@AXW-01 /d/software/mingw
> > $ ls -l
> > total 8120
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 AXW   Administ  2808061 Dec 12 13:01 MSYS-1.0.10.exe
> > -rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ  6160640 Dec 12 13:00
> > binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1.tar.gz
> > -rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ  3515620 Dec 12 12:57
> > gcc-core-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz
> > -rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ   348713 Dec 12 12:27 mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 AXW   Administ  1303940 Dec 12 14:04 mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.exe
> > -rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ   950504 Dec 12 12:34
> > mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.tar.gz
> > -rw-r--r--    1 AXW   Administ  1536427 Dec 12 12:27 w32api-3.6.tar.gz
> >